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October 17, 2014

Barbour says next Congress can’t “cram it down the other side’s throat”

Haley Barbour, Dairy Forum Speaker, Outlines Challenges for Congress Economic growth, immigration reform and the ability to compromise will be the major challenges facing the 114th Congress next year, according to Haley Barbour, former governor of Mississippi, who is slated to provide the Chairman’s Lecture at the 2015 Dairy Forum. Barbour, who also is the…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
October 17, 2014

Congressman Bennie Thompson urges balance between caution and reassurance on #Ebola

In battling Ebola, fighting panic is as critical as containing virus Lawmakers and other public officials have attempted to walk a fine line between urging caution and vigilance against the disease and reassuring a jittery population. “I often urge my colleagues not to use our positions of influence to promote fear in the public,” said…