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06/27/2009 Telegraph Journal Our New Brunswick energy sector is on the move.
We are home to an increasingly diverse energy portfolio. Our electricity generation capacity includes hydro, nuclear, wind, biomass, natural gas, coal and oil. As well, we are home to Canada's largest producer of refined petroleum products, and the country's only liquefied natural gas terminal.
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06/27/09 The Hill Rep. Jim Oberstar (D-Minn.) has a powerful ally in his battle with the White House over the highway bill: K Street.
Trade associations, unions and business coalitions are getting behind the House Transportation Committee chairman in his push to complete the $450 billion measure before the fiscal year ends on Sept. 30. The Obama administration has argued the transportation reauthorization bill is a bridge too far for an already jam-packed legislative agenda and wants to extend the current law at least 18 months before Capitol Hill can take on new reforms.
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06/26/2009 Bloomberg June 26 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Senate proposal to impose taxes for the first time on “gold-plated” health plans may bypass generous employee benefits negotiated by unions.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, the chief congressional advocate of taxing some employer-provided benefits to help pay for an overhaul of the U.S. health system, says any change should exempt perks secured in existing collective- bargaining agreements, which can be in place for as long as five years.
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06/25/2009 The Hill A horde of union members gathered on Capitol Hill on Thursday demanding that a government-backed insurance program be included in healthcare reform legislation.
At a rally fronted by former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, representatives from liberal groups and organized labor said a bill that does not include a public insurance plan would not be true reform.
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06/22/09 People's Weekly World WASHINGTON (PAI)--There’s a mass march on Washington for health care, after all, on June 25.
Unionists from around the country are set to descend that day on the nation’s Capital to demand universal, quality, affordable health care with cost controls and choice of doctors -- and to insist that Congress not pay for it by taxing workers’ health benefits.
If lawmakers impose that tax, says one union president, the Laborers’ Terry O’Sullivan, unionists -- both members and organizations -- will turn against the bill. He calls taxing workers’ benefits “dead on arrival.”
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06/16/09 Washington, D.C. – LIUNA General President Terry O’Sullivan made the following statement on the pending surface transportation bill and the need to not delay building America’s surface transportation system.
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06/13/2009 Battle Creek Enquirer Speaking in Kalamazoo on Friday, Vice President Joe Biden announced $2 billion in economic recovery bonds coming to Michigan.
The money, the most per capita going to any state under the bond program, includes $24.1 million for Calhoun County.
Biden's visit served as the groundbreaking for a $52 million construction project along Interstate 94 being funded with stimulus money, an effort the vice president called a "shot in the arm" for the country's economy.
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06/12/2009 LIUNA LIUNA – the half-million member Laborers’ International Union of North America – is calling on Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus to fix America’s healthcare system without taxing working men and women who already pay too much.
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06/11/09 The New York Times Transportation advocates, environmentalists and like-minded lawmakers see the upcoming highway and transit reauthorization bill as a vehicle to deliver Washington's promise to overhaul the nation's transportation system, complete with a focus on curbing greenhouse gas emissions and reducing fuel consumption.
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06/05/2009 Fox News "Less bad" is not good enough, Vice President Joe Biden said Friday, announcing that the Obama administration will introduce plans to speed up disbursements from the economic stimulus package to try to curb continuing job losses.
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