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hedgehog

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6. Don't forget:
Wed Jan 4, 2012, 04:46 PM
Jan 2012

Santorum introduced the National Weather Service Duties Act of 2005 to "clarify the duties and responsibilities of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration[3] and the National Weather Service (NWS), and for other purposes".[84] This legislation, if enacted, would prohibit the NWS from publishing weather data to the public when private-sector entities, perform the same function commercially. At the same time, Santorum said that the National Weather Service needed to be a robust organization capable of predicting serious weather conditions.[85] The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association was galvanizing support to lobby against this bill,[86] but it never passed committee. Opponents of the bill suggested it was corporate welfare, where the private weather service companies, which often receive data from the National Weather Service, would be enabled to charge government and military agencies for that information.[86] The motivations surrounding this bill were controversial, as AccuWeather, a commercial weather company based in Santorum's home state, stood to profit from this legislation, and Accuweather employees had contributed at least $5500 to him since 1999.

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Pennsylvania residency and tuition fee

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santorum

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