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• The United States Senate votes 73–25 in favor of the Food Safety Modernization Act, which would increase the power of the FDA.
• President Barack Obama calls for a freeze in wages for civilian employees of the United States government.
• The European Union approves a bailout of Ireland in response to the country's financial crisis.
• Thomas Woods begins a class entitled "Nullification: A Jeffersonian Bulwark Against Tyranny" in the Mises Academy.
• The Federal Reserve begins a second round of quantitative easing, buying $600 billion in long-term Treasury securities with newly created money.

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