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Lawmakers Eye Harbor Maintenance Fund's Surplus
2013-02-06 17:24:34| ENR.com: Headline News
Boxer wants to revise funding allocations among ports, widen funds use beyond dredging.
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Florida lawmakers push to tax online purchases
2013-02-06 09:11:13| IT Services - Topix.net
There's a new twist this year in the annual push to make online retailers collect sales tax from Florida buyers.
Lawmakers pledge to change hacking law during Swartz memorial
2013-02-05 13:47:30| InfoWorld: Top News
U.S. lawmakers pledged to rewrite an antihacking law as hundreds of people gathered in Washington, D.C., to mourn the death of Internet activist and innovator Aaron Swartz. Speakers at a Monday memorial service for Swartz, who committed suicide in January, remembered him as an intensely curious young man who wanted to help people and change the world. The world is a "worse place" because of Swartz's death, said his girlfriend, Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman.
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Utah lawmakers received $96K in contributions from alcohol, tobacco companies
2013-02-03 12:31:14| Beverages - Topix.net
Gov. Gary Herbert is returning a $1,000 campaign contribution from the nation's second largest tobacco company, citing his pledge not to accept financial gifts from the alcohol and tobacco industries.
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Activist to Vt. lawmakers: Act now on climate
2013-01-30 23:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Writer and environmental activist Bill McKibben gave Vermont lawmakers a dire warning about climate change Wednesday, calling it ''the biggest challenge by far that humans have ever faced,'' and calling for steps including a big new effort to save energy by insulating thousands of homes in the state. Speaking to a joint session of the House and Senate at the invitation of House Speaker Shap Smith, the Ripton resident and scholar in residence at Middlebury College called on lawmakers to take immediate...
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