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Predicting Obama's Food Policy

 
On Monday, the New York Daily News blog Mouth of the Potomac passed along a rumor that President-elect Obama was thinking of moving Tom Vilsack , Obama's pick as agriculture secretary, over to the Commerce Department. read more (link)

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