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Menendez, Lautenberg, Mikulski, Cardin, Bill Nelson call on Defense officials to explain why EPA regulations have been ignored; Menendez, Lautenberg and Nelson also ask GAO to investigate

Lautenberg, Kerry, Menendez, Dorgan Legislation Demands End to Wartime Propaganda

WASHINTON, D.C – The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources recently approved legislation Sens. Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) and Robert Menendez (D-NJ) sponsored to extend funding for the Coastal Heritage Trail in New Jersey until the year 2011. 

WASHINGTON – Today, President Bush submitted his FY2009 budget proposal to Congress – a proposal that includes cuts to key domestic health care, education, environmental programs and state and local homeland security grants. The budget raises the deficit without even including the cost of the war.

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) released the following statement today on the passing of Archbishop Christodoulos, head of Greece’s Orthodox Church.

WASHINGTON – Various recent news reports have cited an increase in foreign investment in U.S. firms due to a weak American dollar, including a Washington Post report today specifically focused on Chinese investment. Much of this investment comes from sovereign wealth funds, which are backed, at least in part, by foreign governments.

WASHINGTON – Today, the Commission on the National Guard and Reserve issued its final report, which asserted that those branches of the Armed Forces are not adequately prepared to respond to chemical, biological or nuclear attacks on the homeland.

WASHINGTON – According to a New York Times report today, recent attacks that have killed more than 100 leaders of the U.S.-supported Sunni militias made up of former insurgents, known as “Awakening Councils”, threaten to undermine what little security has been achieved in Iraq by driving current U.S. allies back into the insurgency. American officials expressed concern over this development, which is apparently part of an effort by al Qaeda in Iraq to target and undermine these groups.