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Senate OKs $739B climate action and healthcare cost reduction bill
August 8, 2022Passage of the biggest-ever climate action measure did not come without a price paid to corporate interests, however.
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Sinema agrees to landmark climate bill but at a price
August 5, 2022Hers is the 50th vote which, along with Vice President Harris, gives the majority needed to pass the most significant environment bill in U.S. history,
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Blue-Green Alliance: Money bill will create thousands of green jobs
August 4, 2022Among them will be jobs constructing new “green” factories and jobs retro-fitting old ones.
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Senate Dems’ vote on reproductive rights fails; Manchin joins GOP opposition
May 11, 2022The aim is to put lawmakers on record so the public will know where everyone stands.
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Legislature overrides Md. GOP Gov. Hogan’s veto of labor-backed paid family/medical leave; pro-union bills fall
April 14, 2022ANNAPOLIS, Md. (PAI)—The heavily Democratic Maryland legislature overrode GOP Gov. Larry Hogan’s veto of a proposed state family and medical leave bill, the Time To Care Act, that would have helped an estimated 2.5 million workers...
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