The committee invited four Democrats to sit in on the hearings, and two attended: Rep. William Jefferson of Louisiana and Rep. Gene Taylor of Mississippi.

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Rep. Gene Taylor (D-MS) opposes the bill from the right.

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Late Wednesday, Bank of America announced some of its plans: It will fire 3, 000 employees and replace the head of its investment bank, Gene Taylor, with Brian Moynihan, who has headed up investment management at the bank since 2004.

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The research team, led by synthetic biologist Omri Amirav-Drory and plant scientist Kyle Taylor, aims to transplant a bioluminescence gene into a small plant called Arabidopsis, a member of the mustard family.

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He had previously verbally committed to Alabama two years ago, decommitted last July, gave a verbal to Auburn, and then made a second decommitment in December when former head coach Gene Chizik was fired along with his lead recruiter, Trooper Taylor.

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