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• Report: States use little tobacco settlement funds for related programs

  By Chris Rizo | Thursday, Dec 10, 2009 @ 6:24am

  Myers WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline)�Although states are raking in billions of dollars in revenue this year from the 1998 tobacco multistate settlement, officials are spending a paltry amount on antismoking efforts, a national report says.

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• Texas Times: A Texan who helped change the world

  By U.S. Sen John Cornyn | Thursday, Oct 11, 2007 @ 6:44am

  Later this month, President Bush will present a Congressional Gold Medal, the legislative branch's highest civilian award, to Dr. Michael Ellis DeBakey of Houston. I was proud to join Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and the Texas delegation in sponsoring this latest honor for our state's most famous medical doctor.

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