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Higgins urges Congress to protect Great Lakes restoration, Buffalo River funding
2013-03-16 10:20:50| Chemicals - Topix.net
Congressman Brian Higgins, NY-26, spoke on the House Floor Friday to urge his colleagues in Congress to repeal the sequester by highlighting the importance of continued Great Lakes Restoration Initiative funding for projects like the cleanup of the Buffalo River.
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Obama urges Congress to earmark $2bn for electric car research
2013-03-15 16:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Barack Obama's grand vision of action on climate change shrank to $200m a year to fund research into clean fuel cars, with signs of retreat on the big environmental issues of the day. Friday's initiative hyped in advance by the White House marked the first move by Obama to make good on the stirring promises of climate action offered in his inaugural speech and state of the union address. But on the most immediate environmental decision in his in-tray -- the future of the controversial Keystone...
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Bloomberg urges mayors to press Congress on guns
2013-01-18 21:05:30| Biotech - Topix.net
By MARILYNN MARCHIONE AP Chief Medical Writer Researchers have chosen an experimental drug by Eli Lilly & Co.
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AIA Urges Congress, President to Find a Permanent Bipartisan Solution to Sequestration
2013-01-02 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
In her statement regarding failure to fix sequestration in fiscal cliff deal, AIA President and CEO Marion C. Blakey said "More than 2 million Americans across all sectors of the economy will lose their jobs starting in 57 days if our political leaders fail to fix the self-inflicted wound of sequestration." Blakey continued, saying this 2 month delay does not eliminate uncertainty facing business leaders and warfighters and urged Congress and President Obama to find permanent solution. This story is related to the following:Trade Associations
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