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[Peter Miller]

I wrote it, but I'm not going to use it on the Labor Hour.  Feel free to 
use it for the newshour.
-Peter


Bush Ag Appointment Cheated Government

George W. Bush's nominee for a top office in the department of agriculture 
was charged with cheating the government out of seventeen thousand dollars 
in farm subsidies.  Thomas Dorr, a nominee for undersecretary for rural 
development, said that he did "nothing out of the ordinary" and that he 
simply used loopholes that many farmers use to obtain government farm 
subsidies.  Dorr was forced to re-pay seventeen thousand dollars to the 
government after the USDA investigated his operation in 1995.  Last spring, 
President George W. Bush appointed Dorr to a USDA consultant position 
paying $120,000 per year.  He still awaits appointment to the 
undersecretary position.