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Monday, June 24, 2013

N.Y. Pols Stop Olive Oil Tax Hike

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Buy American olive oil? Fuhgeddaboudit! New York lawmakers banded together to knock off a provision of a federal farm bill that would have subjected Italian and Greek olive oil to new fees and testing -- a measure that gave their constituents a bad case of indigestion. Rep. Michael Grimm (R-SI) helped engineer a lopsided vote on the House floor to strip the proposal last week ...

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