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07/13/11 Sag Harbor Village Harbor Committee Chairman Bruce Tait and village environmental planning consultant Rich Warren examine the effects of erosion on West Water Street Monday evening. Photographs taken in 2009 of the village owned waterfront on West Water Street in Sag Harbor show a healthy beachfront bordered by grasses and a few trees before the landscape [...]
07/07/11 US Senator John Kerry today thanked Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus for helping shield Massachusetts medical companies from millions of dollars of budget cuts.
07/01/11 share: digg facebook twitter Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Johnson, D-S.D., said Friday he planned to advance Curry's nomination for a quick vote by the panel. The comptroller's office was one of three federal agencies that in April ordered 16 of the nation's biggest mortgage lenders and servicers to reimburse homeowners who were improperly foreclosed upon. The Federal Reserve's board of ...
06/21/11 Placement of rip-rap and beach nourishment are among priorities of the Marshfield Seawall Committee. Committee Chairman Joe Rossi hopes to address those issues during the first interagency meeting at which various organizations will gather on June 28.
06/21/11 Fewer than two weeks before Independence Day, it remains unclear if the Marion Fireworks Committee will be able to harness the financial resources necessary to hold the annual Third of July fireworks display over Sippican Harbor on Silvershell Beach. With nearly $23,000 short of the required $39,257 budget to put on the show, Marion Fireworks Committee Chairman Chris Collings put forth a request ...
06/21/11 CHARLESTON, W.Va.--Two of the states top Democrats say a Republican plan designed to break up Amtraks monopoly of U.S. passenger rail lines could jeopardize local rail service through Charleston. Last week, House Transportation Committee Chairman Jo...
06/08/11 It's time for conniving Congressman Anthony Weiner to pack it in, says former Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine.
05/27/11 WASHINGTON -- Besieged by attacks over House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's Medicare plan, Republican lawmakers are amplifying their message that it was President Barack Obama's health care law, not theirs, that pushed draconian cuts to the entitlement program.
05/27/11 Representatives of the natural gas drilling industry were grilled on the controversial drilling technique of hydrofracking Thursday by a panel of state lawmakers. The hearing by Assembly Environmental Committee Chairman Robert Sweeney and Health Committee Chairman Richard Gottfried was dominated by questioning of experts offered by the Independent Oil and Gas Association of New York. Scott Cline ...
05/26/11 Trying to position himself as the model fiscally conservative Republican presidential candidate, Tim Pawlenty spoke at the libertarian-leaning Cato Institute in Washington and refused to either endorse or reject the budget proposed by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wisc.
05/17/11 share: digg facebook twitter Legislative budget negotiators agreed Monday on spending in many key areas except education, prompting Senate Finance Committee Chairman Steve Ogden to suggest a special session on public schools and universities could be necessary this summer. [...] negotiators' plan would fall an estimated $4.8 billion short of covering Medicaid caseload growth, which would require ...
05/16/11 The Conservation Commission is still looking for members for its new Walking Trails Maintenance Committee. This committee will take over responsibility for both maintaining old trails and developing new trails, according to Open Space Committee Chairman Martin Kessel.
05/10/11 share: digg facebook twitter Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, D-N.D., raised the idea of an extra tax on the wealthiest taxpayers, Democratic officials said, and the Senate's Democratic leader, Harry Reid, D-Nev., called for an end to tax subsidies for oil and gas companies. The conflicting approaches to debt reduction set the stage for a grand national debate that will likely play ...
05/10/11 COLUMBIA -- The company that provides the town of Ridgelands speed-camera system is alleging a conflict of interest on the part of a lawmaker whose law firm sued the town and the company, and who is now poised to consider legislation that would ban the photo-radar enforcement method.iTraffic president Bill Danzell addressed House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Harrison in a letter Monday. He ...
05/10/11 Assembly Budget Committee Chairman Lou Greenwald says state's taxation structure may be broken
05/06/11 The push for new laws to protect online privacy -- particularly the ability of websites to track people's movements across the Internet -- gained momentum Friday as key lawmakers said they would propose new legislation. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W. Va.) said he would introduce a bill creating a legal obligation for online companies to honor consumer requests ...
04/29/11 Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan speaks during a markup hearing before the House Budget Committee on April 6 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Angry voters jeered and booed Thursday as the architect ...
04/21/11 The president once again criticized House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's budget plan on Wednesday, but his tone was softer than it was last week.
04/21/11 The Associated Press The Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. South Carolina's Senate Republicans have re-elected Gaffney Sen. Harvey Peeler as their majority leader. Peeler was unopposed in Wednesday's election that came on a voice vote. Peeler has been majority leader since 2005 when Senate Finance Committee Chairman Hugh Leatherman of Florence resigned in a power struggle with Peeler. Republicans ...
04/20/11 Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus came to President Barack Obama's hometown Wednesday to lay out the GOP's case against him and predicted his defeat in 2012.
04/20/11 Lakewood Yacht Club Race Committee Chairman Dwight Bengtson announced that the Sea Lake Yacht Sales Shoe Regatta will be held over the weekend of May 21 & 22. | 
