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For about 10 minutes, Representative John Conyers looked to have a challenge as he sought his 25th term in the House from four Democratic comers in a new Michigan district that includes portions of Detroit and chunks of neighboring suburbs.

During an interview with "60 Minutes," Representative Eric Cantor, Republican of Virginia and the House majority leader, strongly defended his party's dug-in opposition to tax increases last year, saying it reflected the party's core values, but he seemed to stumble when recounting former President Ronald Reagan's record on taxes.

In a few minutes, Representatives Anna Eshoo and Joe Barton will team up to block the registration of generic biologic medicines.

The shear strain or relative deformation is a measure of the change in geometry and in this case is expressed by the trigonometric function, tangent (tan) of the angle θ (theta), which denotes the amount of change in the 90°, or right, angles of the minute representative cubic volume of the unstrained material.

You need to go to jail!" A few minutes earlier, Representative Joe L. Barton of Texas, the top Republican on the committee, touched off an uproar by referring to the president's securing of the $20 billion damage fund as a "shakedown".

Within just a few minutes the representative had gotten so condescending and unhelpful I felt compelled to record the speakerphone conversation on my other phone".

Earlier a woman testified and had time left over when she was finished, so she gave her minutes to representative Jessica Farrar, only to watch as Committee Chairman Byron Cook called the next person immediately.

A last-minute challenger, Representative Marcy Kaptur of Ohio, who announced her candidacy only Wednesday, withdrew before the voting.

A few minutes later, representatives of the Congressional Progressive Caucus appeared at the Boehner-warm lectern to deplore the plan as an assault on working families and the result of a hostage situation created by Tea Party Republicans.

But the Cuban government is upset by financing restrictions added at the last minute by Representative Lincoln Diaz-BalaRepublicanblican from Miami, and other legislators who opposed weakening the embargo.

"The secondary market is not just everyday folks trying to sell their tickets because they can't go to a show at the last minute," said Representative Bill Pascrell Jr., Democrat of New Jersey, who has proposed legislation to curb scalpers' access to tickets.