This from a job creating enginethat receives no taxpayer dollars and is the sole self-funded government agency, supported 100 percent by the patent fees of individual inventors, universities and creative companies.

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Grassley that the agency was working to improve its oversight of self-regulatory organizations like the stock exchanges following recommendations by the Government Accountability Office, which concluded in its own report on the SEC last year that the agency's inefficiency impedes its ability to investigate insider trading.

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Conducted by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, the survey involved a self-completion questionnaire given to more than 6, 000 post-primary school children in 62 schools.

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The previous FDA head, Andrew von Eschenbach, permitted self-styled whistleblowers to flout the agency's ethics rules by publicly contradicting agency policy and disparaging drugs and drug companies that they disliked.

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