"Decisions about whether the House will seek to accept or promptly amend the measure will not be made until House members... have been able to review the legislation, " Mr Boehner and other House Republican leaders said in a statement.

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He said the Obama administration fought for wording to be included in the Sandy aid measure to require enhanced reviews and internal controls on all money made available by HUD and other agencies for superstorm relief and recovery.

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But it clearly requires that Newton become the NFL star that the consensus of talent evaluators figure him to be and that he measure up to the hubris in the kinds of comments he made ahead of the NFL Scouting Combine and picked-up on by Dan Wetzel of Yahoo!

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As satellite-based GPS becomes more ubiquitous in cell phones, the idea is that by figuring out the position and speed of a person's cell phone as it travels in a moving car, traffic data could be made available faster, cheaper, and in areas where it's hard to measure, like on rural roads or city streets, for example.

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In addition the measure of inflation used to calculate annual increases in many benefits would be made stingier.

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