Located in historic Lexington, Barrel House has tours every day except Sunday, offering visitors the chance to see its whiskey, rum and vodka being made.

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On Friday morning, the colonel returned to the staging area, where his staff had set up a forward command post -- a tent and a series of antennas in the compound yard of an abandoned three-room house with barrel-vault ceilings made of mud brick.

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At the Agroturismo Vinya d'en Palerm in Sant Miquel, the Palerm family - farmers of this land since 1898 - make their own wine in a vast plastic barrel just behind the main house.

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DeLauro also hinted that the administration might consider releasing product from the 571-million barrel Strategic Petroleum Reserve, a suggestion the White House is certain to refuse outright.

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White House officials portrayed the budget as an attack on "pork barrel" projects.

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"I know he does have a great record for not being a pork barrel spending freak like some of the other people in the Senate and the House, " he said.

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Then, Bud Shuster, the controversial House Transportation Committee chairman and author of one of the biggest pork-barrel spending bills in the history of Congress, had to leave his chairman post.

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