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Article:	Durbin, Obama criticize House leadership on blocking ag relief WASHINGTON - Illinois Democratic Sens. Dick Durbin and Barack Obama attacked the House GOP leadership on Tuesday for blocking $1.6 billion in farm aid that they say could help Illinois' and other states' drought-suffering farmers. &#8220I can't for the life of me understand how the House Republican leadership could reject an agricultural disaster assistance program,” Durbin said. &#8220Some of these House leaders are from Midwestern states and they know what's happened.” A spokesman for House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., defended the move to reject the $1.6 billion proposal, saying that the emergency relief intended in a pending defense spending measure was supposed to be only for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. &#8220We believe Katrin
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