This is not the first proposal to federalize private-sector research and development of pharmaceuticals.

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In addition, Swift said she will ask officials in Washington to federalize security systems in airports around the nation.

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The cynical believe this is part of a plan to federalize Europe from the shattered economic pieces of a broad European sovereign default.

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