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Congresswoman Madeleine Dean (PA-04) and Congressman Jamie Raskin (MD-08), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, demanded a federal investigation into former Bard College President Leon Botstein after reviewing an email in which Botstein asked Jeffrey Epstein about a young woman Epstein was trafficking: “Is [Jane Doe] for me, or are you keeping her for yourself.”
LITTLE ROCK—A major overhaul of the nation’s farm programs is moving forward after the Senate Agriculture Committee approved Farm Bill 2.0 in a party-line vote. Arkansas Senator John Boozman, chairman of the committee, helped lead the legislation. Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell returned to the Senate to cast the deciding vote. The five-year proposal would strengthen crop insurance and other risk-management programs, expand conservation and specialty crop assistance, and provide more funding to help farmers sell products overseas. It also includes investments in rural broadband, drinking wate