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	<title>Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives - Urge Congress to Protect the Great Lakes &#187; Great Lakes Congressional Watch</title>
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		<title>Rep. Dave Camp&#8217;s Asian Carp Bill Needs Cosponsors</title>
		<link>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/rep-dave-camps-asian-carp-bill-needs-cosponsors</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/rep-dave-camps-asian-carp-bill-needs-cosponsors#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany Danitz Pache</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Great Lakes Congressional Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bart Stupak (D-Mich.)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Candice Miller (R-Mich)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carolyn Kilpatrick (D-Mich.)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dale Kildee (D-Mich.)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fred Upton (R-Mich)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gary Peters (D-Mich.)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Lakes Delegation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Dingell (D-Mich)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Schauer (D-Mich.)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Rogers (R-Mich.)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Dave Camp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sander Levin (D-Mich)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thaddeus McCotter (R-Mich)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Permanent Prevention of the Asian Carp Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vern Ehlers (R-Mich)]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Michigan’s Congressional delegation is stepping up to the plate to support a bill to help stop the invasive Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes. Congressional members form the other Great Lakes states – Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ohio, and New York&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/rep-dave-camps-asian-carp-bill-needs-cosponsors">Rep. Dave Camp&#8217;s Asian Carp Bill Needs Cosponsors</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org">Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives - Urge Congress to Protect the Great Lakes</a></p>
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		<title>Lessons from the Gulf Disaster</title>
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		<comments>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/lessons-from-the-gulf-disaster#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany Danitz Pache</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Congressional Winners and Losers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BP Oil Spill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drilling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[great-lakes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gulf of Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama Administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.)]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p>The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is a tragedy that continues to unfold. It is leading to an important national discussion on America’s energy policy which continues to rely on fossil fuels—and the risks in continuing to&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/lessons-from-the-gulf-disaster">Lessons from the Gulf Disaster</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org">Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives - Urge Congress to Protect the Great Lakes</a></p>
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		<title>Another One Bites The Dust: Souder to Resign, Specter Ousted</title>
		<link>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/another-one-bites-the-dust-souder-to-resign-specter-ousted</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/another-one-bites-the-dust-souder-to-resign-specter-ousted#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 14:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany Danitz Pache</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Congressional Winners and Losers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Lakes Ecosystem Protection Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great-Lakes-restoration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Souder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. David Obey (D-Wis.)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Vern Ehlers (R-Mich.)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sen Arlene Specter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US House]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Senate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p>The list of Great Lakes lawmakers who will not return to Congress in January continues to grow by the week. And there are some very heavy hitters on the list. This week, another resignation and a failed primary bid seal&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/another-one-bites-the-dust-souder-to-resign-specter-ousted">Another One Bites The Dust: Souder to Resign, Specter Ousted</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org">Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives - Urge Congress to Protect the Great Lakes</a></p>
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		<title>Great Lakes Ecosystem Protection Act Priority Issue</title>
		<link>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/great-lakes-ecosystem-protection-act-priority-issue</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 16:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany Danitz Pache</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Congressional Winners and Losers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Lakes Ecosystem Protection Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cosponsors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Dan Maffei]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. John Boccieri]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Pete Hoekstra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Thad McCotter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sen. Bob Casey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sen. Roland Burris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US House]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>The Great Lakes Ecosystem Protection Act needs co-sponsors in both the US Senate and the US House. The US Senate has garnered two more signatures: those of <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL2J1cnJpcy5zZW5hdGUuZ292Lw==">Sen. Roland Burris (D-Ill.) </a>and <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5jYXNleS5zZW5hdGUuZ292Lw==">Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.).  </a>These are&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/great-lakes-ecosystem-protection-act-priority-issue">Great Lakes Ecosystem Protection Act Priority Issue</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org">Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives - Urge Congress to Protect the Great Lakes</a></p>
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		<title>Congress Considers Opening the Spigot for Safe Drinking Water</title>
		<link>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/congress-considers-opening-the-spigot-for-safe-drinking-water</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/congress-considers-opening-the-spigot-for-safe-drinking-water#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 11:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany Danitz Pache</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Congressional Winners and Losers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sewage Contamination and Beach Closings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Society of Civil Engineers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assistance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drinking Waters State Revolving Fund]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Lakes Region]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[House Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quality and Affordability Act of 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Edward Markey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Henry Waxman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p>The Great Lakes serve up drinking water for 40 million people, but the region&#8217;s infrastructure is old and in need of improvement. The <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5pbmZyYXN0cnVjdHVyZXJlcG9ydGNhcmQub3JnL3JlcG9ydC1jYXJkcw==">American Society of Civil Engineers </a>estimates that the Great Lakes need about <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5nbGMub3JnL3Jlc3RvcmUvcGRmLzIwMTAvU1JGJTIwcHJpb3JpdHklMjBmYWN0JTIwc2hlZXQtMjAxMC1GSU5BTC5wZGY=">$75 billion to</a>&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/congress-considers-opening-the-spigot-for-safe-drinking-water">Congress Considers Opening the Spigot for Safe Drinking Water</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org">Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives - Urge Congress to Protect the Great Lakes</a></p>
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		<title>Rep. Obey’s Departure Will Be Region’s Loss</title>
		<link>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/rep-obey%e2%80%99s-departure-will-be-region%e2%80%99s-loss</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/rep-obey%e2%80%99s-departure-will-be-region%e2%80%99s-loss#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 12:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany Danitz Pache</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Congressional Winners and Losers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Lakes Restoration Initiative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. David Obey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Norm Dicks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Vern Ehlers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sean Duffy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sen. Evan Bayh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sen. George Voinovich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sen. Herb Kohl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US House Appropriations Committee]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthylakes.org/?p=4008</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5oZWFsdGh5bGFrZXMub3JnL3dvcmRwcmVzcy93cC1jb250ZW50L3VwbG9hZHMvMjAxMC8wNS80MDAzMDAtMTAwcHguanBn"><img src="http://www.healthylakes.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/400300-100px.jpg" alt="" title="400300-100px" width="100" height="122" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-4010" /></a>Whether you are a Democrat or a Republican, if you live in the Great Lakes region, you have benefited from the leadership and commitment to restoration that Rep. David Obey (D-Wis.) brought to Washington. </p>
<p>Rep. Obey is the chairman&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/rep-obey%e2%80%99s-departure-will-be-region%e2%80%99s-loss">Rep. Obey’s Departure Will Be Region’s Loss</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org">Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives - Urge Congress to Protect the Great Lakes</a></p>
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		<title>If anyone knows the Clean Water Act, it is Rep. Oberstar</title>
		<link>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/if-anyone-knows-the-clean-water-act-it-is-rep-oberstar</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 19:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany Danitz Pache</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Congressional Winners and Losers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[America's Committment to Clean Water Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clean Water Act 1972]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clean Water Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clean-Water-Restoration-Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drinking water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[great-lakes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[navigable waters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pollution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rapanos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. James Oberstar (D-Minn.)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rivers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Streams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SWANCC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Supreme Court]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waters of the United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wetlands]]></category>

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<p>U.S. Rep. James Oberstar (D-Minn.) has been Congressman for more than 40 years. During his expansive political career he has been a leader in helping to pass laws to protect the nation’s waterways. Recently, Rep. Oberstar introduced <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3RyYW5zcG9ydGF0aW9uLmhvdXNlLmdvdi9NZWRpYS9maWxlL3dhdGVyL0FDQ1dBL0hSJTIwNTA4OCUyMEFDQ1clMjBBY3QucGRm">America’s</a>&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/if-anyone-knows-the-clean-water-act-it-is-rep-oberstar">If anyone knows the Clean Water Act, it is Rep. Oberstar</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org">Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives - Urge Congress to Protect the Great Lakes</a></p>
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		<title>WRDA Reauthorization Offers Opportunity for Great Lakes Restoration</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 19:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany Danitz Pache</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Congressional Winners and Losers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Army Corps of Engineers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carp Barrier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment-and-Public-Works-Committee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Lakes Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Janet Kavinoky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. Chamber of Commerce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Senate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water-Resources-Development-Act]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p>The Great Lakes region has some of the oldest water infrastructures in the nation and we also happen to have a lagging economy. There will be a hearing on Capitol Hill on Thursday to consider how the Water Resources Development&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/wrda-reauthorization-offers-opportunity-for-great-lakes-restoration">WRDA Reauthorization Offers Opportunity for Great Lakes Restoration</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org">Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives - Urge Congress to Protect the Great Lakes</a></p>
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		<title>The US Senate Budget Resolution Fully Funds GLRI</title>
		<link>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/the-us-senate-budget-resolution-fully-funds-glri</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:48:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany Danitz Pache</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Congressional Winners and Losers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[$475 million]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Lakes Restoration Initiative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Gwenn Moore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Marcy Kaptur]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senator Al Franken]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senator Carl Levin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senator Charles Schumer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senator Debbie Stabenow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senator Evan Bayh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senator George Voinovich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senator Judd Gregg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senator Kent Conrad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senator Roland Burris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senator Russ Feingold]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senator Sherrod Brown]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>The ranking and minority chair’s of the US Senate Budget Committee, Senators Kent Conrad (D-ND) and Judd Gregg (R-NH) have replaced the President’s recommended $300 million for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative with the full $475 million in the Senate&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/the-us-senate-budget-resolution-fully-funds-glri">The US Senate Budget Resolution Fully Funds GLRI</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org">Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives - Urge Congress to Protect the Great Lakes</a></p>
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		<title>House Bill Would Bring Restoration and Economic Recovery to the Great Lakes</title>
		<link>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/house-bill-would-bring-restoration-and-economic-recovery-to-the-great-lakes</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 19:14:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany Danitz Pache</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[America's Commitment to Clean Water Act]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthylakes.org/?p=3979</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>More than 66 percent of Great Lakes wetlands have been filled in or destroyed, Ohio has lost 90 percent of her wetlands, and wetlands provide an essential ingredient in clean water and great lakes restoration. Today, Minnesota Rep. Jim Oberstar&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/house-bill-would-bring-restoration-and-economic-recovery-to-the-great-lakes">House Bill Would Bring Restoration and Economic Recovery to the Great Lakes</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org">Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives - Urge Congress to Protect the Great Lakes</a></p>
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		<title>Mark Schauer to Bring Great Lakes into Estuary Program</title>
		<link>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/mark-schauer-to-bring-great-lakes-into-estuary-program</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:19:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany Danitz Pache</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Congressional Winners and Losers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[great-lakes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[House bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Estuary Program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Mark Schauer (d-Mich)]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthylakes.org/?p=3975</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>Michigan Democrat Mark Schauer showed tremendous leadership on Great Lakes issues this week when he included our region in the National Estuary Program. He intends to offer an amendment to HR 4715 that would ensure the Great Lakes are brought&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/mark-schauer-to-bring-great-lakes-into-estuary-program">Mark Schauer to Bring Great Lakes into Estuary Program</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org">Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives - Urge Congress to Protect the Great Lakes</a></p>
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		<title>All for One and One for All</title>
		<link>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/us-house-congressional-winners-and-losers-great-lakes-congressional-watch/all-for-one-and-one-for-all</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/us-house-congressional-winners-and-losers-great-lakes-congressional-watch/all-for-one-and-one-for-all#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany Danitz Pache</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[US House]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Senate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Leary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chesapeake Bay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coast of Louisiana]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Great Lakes Restoration Initiative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Waters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Larry Schweiger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Long Island Sound]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malia Hale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mississippi River]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[puget sound]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Jim Moran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Mike Quigley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[San Francisco Bay Sacramento San Joaquin River Delta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sen. Barbara Boxer]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthylakes.org/?p=3951</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>Economic turbulence tends to inspire regionalism among Congressmen and those who lobby them. The Great Lakes has received an infusion of federal money to invest in restoration and it appears that this is causing some envy among other ecosystem restoration&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/us-house-congressional-winners-and-losers-great-lakes-congressional-watch/all-for-one-and-one-for-all">All for One and One for All</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org">Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives - Urge Congress to Protect the Great Lakes</a></p>
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		<title>Supreme Court Are Talking Carp</title>
		<link>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/white-house-great-lakes-congressional-watch-2/supreme-court-are-talking-carp</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/white-house-great-lakes-congressional-watch-2/supreme-court-are-talking-carp#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany Danitz Pache</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[White House]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asian-Carp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Close the locks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Separate the Basins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthylakes.org/?p=3934</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>The Supreme Court will meet this Friday and discuss whether or not to hear the case Michigan has brought (with the support of six other GL states) to create a permanent separation between the Mississippi River and Great Lakes Basins.&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/white-house-great-lakes-congressional-watch-2/supreme-court-are-talking-carp">Supreme Court Are Talking Carp</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org">Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives - Urge Congress to Protect the Great Lakes</a></p>
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		<title>Great Lakes Task Force Letter Needs More Signatures</title>
		<link>http://www.healthylakes.org/take-action/great-lakes-task-force-letter-needs-more-signatures</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthylakes.org/take-action/great-lakes-task-force-letter-needs-more-signatures#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany Danitz Pache</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Congressional Winners and Losers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Take Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asian-Carp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fish and Wildlife Service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Lakes Fishery Restoration Study]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Lakes Geologic Mapping Coalition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Lakes Restoration Initiative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Lakes Science Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great-Lakes-Task-Force]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John-Dingell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Louise-Slaughter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark-Kirk]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthylakes.org/?p=3924</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>The Great Lakes Task Force is asking all Great Lakes lawmakers to sign onto a letter that advocates for full funding of important restoration programs by this Thursday. The letter will be delivered to the Ranking and Minority chairs on&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/take-action/great-lakes-task-force-letter-needs-more-signatures">Great Lakes Task Force Letter Needs More Signatures</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org">Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives - Urge Congress to Protect the Great Lakes</a></p>
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		<title>Calling All Great Lakes House Members To Support GLEPA</title>
		<link>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/calling-all-great-lakes-house-members-to-support-glepa</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany Danitz Pache</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Congressional Winners and Losers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bart [MI-1]]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Betty [MN-4]]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Betty [OH-13]]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill [IL-14]]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian [NY-27]]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Candice S. [MI-10]]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carolyn B. [NY-14]]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carolyn C. [MI-13]]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dale E. [MI-5]]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daniel [IL-3]]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Danny K. [IL-7]]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dave [MI-4]]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dennis J. [OH-10]]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donald M. [NJ-10]]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[F. James]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fred [MI-6]]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Lakes Collaboration Implementation Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Lakes Ecological Protection Act of 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gwen [WI-4]]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Janice D. [IL-9]]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jesse L.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe [PA-7]]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jr. [IL-2]]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jr. [MI-14]]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Julia [IN-7]]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keith [MN-5]]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marcy [OH-9]]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Melissa L. [IL-8]]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike J. [MI-8]]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul E. [OH-5]]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Peter [MI-2]]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep Baldwin]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rep. John Dingell (Mich.)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Latourette]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Louise Slaughter (NY)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Mark Kirk (Ill.)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Rogers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Vern Ehlers (R-Mich.)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ron [WI-3]]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sander M. [MI-12]]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Steven C. [OH-14]]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tammy [WI-2]]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thaddeus G. [MI-11]]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas E. [WI-6]]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tim [OH-17]]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthylakes.org/?p=3922</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>Our Great Lakes firebrand Rep. Vern Ehlers (R-Mich.) introduced a bill that could be the biggest, best thing to happen to the Great Lakes since, well, the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. Last week, in conjunction with the US Senate, Rep.&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/calling-all-great-lakes-house-members-to-support-glepa">Calling All Great Lakes House Members To Support GLEPA</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org">Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives - Urge Congress to Protect the Great Lakes</a></p>
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		<title>Urging All Great Lakes Senators To Cosponsor GLEPA</title>
		<link>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/urging-all-great-lakes-senators-to-cosponsor-glepa</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:29:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany Danitz Pache</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Al Franken]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amy-Klobuchar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arlen Specter (PA)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arlene Specter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carl Levin (D-Mich.)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Schumer (NY)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles-Schumer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debbie Stabenow (Mich.)]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dick Durbin (Ill)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dick Lugar]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[George Voinovich (OH)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Herb-Kohl]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kirsten-Gillibrand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert-Casey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roland Burris]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sherrod Brown (OH)]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Great Lakes Ecosystem Protection Act]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthylakes.org/?p=3920</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p> Last week Great Lakes Senators introduced legislation that would pool together all the Great Lakes funding programs into one bill that would be voted on once every five years. The Great Lakes Ecosystem Protection Act of 2010 would provide&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/urging-all-great-lakes-senators-to-cosponsor-glepa">Urging All Great Lakes Senators To Cosponsor GLEPA</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org">Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives - Urge Congress to Protect the Great Lakes</a></p>
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		<title>Landmark Great Lakes Bill Would Provide Permanent Stream of Funds</title>
		<link>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/landmark-great-lakes-bill-would-provide-permanent-stream-of-funds</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany Danitz Pache</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Congressional Winners and Losers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andy Buchsbaum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Lakes Ecosystem Protection Act of 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Lakes National Program Office]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Lakes Restoration Initiative]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jeff-Skelding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senator Carl Levin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senator George Voinovich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Kiernan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthylakes.org/?p=3911</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>If all goes well, funding for Great Lakes programs, from toxic clean up to the fight to stop invasive species from entering the lakes, will all be rolled into one legislative package that will create a permanent funding source for&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/landmark-great-lakes-bill-would-provide-permanent-stream-of-funds">Landmark Great Lakes Bill Would Provide Permanent Stream of Funds</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org">Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives - Urge Congress to Protect the Great Lakes</a></p>
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		<title>Long-Range Thinking Could Save Chicago From Asian Carp Catastrophe</title>
		<link>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/white-house-great-lakes-congressional-watch-2/long-range-thinking-could-save-chicago-from-asian-carp-catastrophe</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany Danitz Pache</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asian Carp Barrier Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White House]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Army Corps of Engineers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chicago Sanitary and Shipping Canal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ecological Separation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Locks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tour Boat Industry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p>The <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5jaGljYWdvdHJpYnVuZS5jb20vdHJhdmVsL2NoaWNhZ28vY3QtbWV0LTAyMjgtdG91ci1ib2F0LXRocmVhdC0yMDEwMDMwMSwwLDYyMDA1OTQuc3Rvcnk=">Chicago Tribune ran a story</a> about the economic damage that closing the locks would cause to the cities summer tourist industry. The Army Corps is considering limiting the number of times the locks are opened and closed to&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/white-house-great-lakes-congressional-watch-2/long-range-thinking-could-save-chicago-from-asian-carp-catastrophe">Long-Range Thinking Could Save Chicago From Asian Carp Catastrophe</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org">Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives - Urge Congress to Protect the Great Lakes</a></p>
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		<title>Message From Congress: Keep Carping</title>
		<link>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/message-from-congress-keep-carping</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany Danitz Pache</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Congressional Winners and Losers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Army Corps of Engineers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asian-Carp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CSSC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[engineering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Locks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Marcy Kaptur]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Mark Shauer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Nancy Dahlkemper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Vern Ehlers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Separation of the Basins]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Sixteen years ago, that is when Rep. Vern Ehlers (R-Mich.) first started asking his colleagues in Congress to deal with the Asian carp threat. “When I first learned about the Asian carp in the Mississippi, I thought good grief, we&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/message-from-congress-keep-carping">Message From Congress: Keep Carping</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org">Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives - Urge Congress to Protect the Great Lakes</a></p>
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		<title>One Voice</title>
		<link>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/one-voice</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany Danitz Pache</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Congressional Winners and Losers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andy Buchsbaum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asian-Carp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GLRI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Lakes Coalition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Lakes Governers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White House]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p>The Great Lakes Governors, the Great Lakes Commission and the Healing Our Waters- Great Lakes Coalition are joining forces to ask Congress and the President to save the Great Lakes from the Asian carp and continue to invest in restoration.&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/one-voice">One Voice</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org">Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives - Urge Congress to Protect the Great Lakes</a></p>
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		<title>Stop the Carp: In Unison GL Commission Calls for Separation of Basins</title>
		<link>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/stop-the-carp-in-unison-gl-commission-calls-for-separation-of-basins</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/stop-the-carp-in-unison-gl-commission-calls-for-separation-of-basins#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany Danitz Pache</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Great Lakes Congressional Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andy Buchsbaum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asian-Carp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Des Plaines River]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ecological Separation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GLIN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[great-lakes-commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HOW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tim Eder]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p>The Great Lakes Commission – including Illinois – <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5nbGMub3JnL2Fubm91bmNlLzEwLzAybWVldGluZy5odG1s">unanimously approved a resolution </a>calling for Congress and the US Army Corps of Engineers to establish ecological separation of the Great Lakes and Mississippi River watersheds as the long-term strategy to&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/stop-the-carp-in-unison-gl-commission-calls-for-separation-of-basins">Stop the Carp: In Unison GL Commission Calls for Separation of Basins</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org">Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives - Urge Congress to Protect the Great Lakes</a></p>
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		<title>The Great Lakes are the Talk of the Town</title>
		<link>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/the-great-lakes-are-the-talk-of-the-town</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany Danitz Pache</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Congressional Winners and Losers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Cuomo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asian-Carp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Close All Routes and Prevent Asian Carp Act of 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Close the locks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment-and-Public-Works-Committee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michigan Lawsuit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senator Gillibrand]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p>It is a big week for the Great Lakes, not only are HOW members flying into Washington today to encourage lawmakers to continue to support restoration, but the Environment and Public Works Committee will hold a hearing on Thursday morning.&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/the-great-lakes-are-the-talk-of-the-town">The Great Lakes are the Talk of the Town</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org">Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives - Urge Congress to Protect the Great Lakes</a></p>
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		<title>Asian Carp Get Hearing on Hill</title>
		<link>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/asian-carp-get-hearing-on-hill</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/asian-carp-get-hearing-on-hill#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany Danitz Pache</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Congressional Winners and Losers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alliance for the Great Lakes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Waterways Operators]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asian-Carp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cam Davis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Del Wilkins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Framework Document]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Lakes Czar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joel Brammeier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Locks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michigan Department of Natural Resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[permanent separation of the basins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. James Oberstar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transportation and Infrastructure Committee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Army Corps General John Peabody]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White House Asian Carp Summit]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p>In the midst of back-to-back snowstorm that have disabled Washington, several members of the House <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3RyYW5zcG9ydGF0aW9uLmhvdXNlLmdvdi9oZWFyaW5ncy9oZWFyaW5nLmFzcHg=">Transportation Committee</a> met for a hearing on the Asian Carp crisis.   </p>
<p>But even though the audience was small, <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5lZW5ld3MubmV0L0VFRGFpbHkvMjAxMC8wMi8xMC83Lw==">the news </a>was not&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/asian-carp-get-hearing-on-hill">Asian Carp Get Hearing on Hill</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org">Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives - Urge Congress to Protect the Great Lakes</a></p>
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		<title>Does The White House Plan Add Up to Zero Tolerance for Asian Carp?</title>
		<link>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/white-house-great-lakes-congressional-watch-2/does-the-white-house-plan-add-up-to-zero-tolerance-for-asian-carp</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany Danitz Pache</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[White House]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asian Carp Control Strategy Framework]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CEQ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charlie Wooley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago Sanitary and Shipping Canal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deputy Regional Director for the Fish and Wildlife Service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eDNA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EPA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governor Jim Doyle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Lakes Governors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[invasive-species]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lisa Jackson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Locks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nancy Sutley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Strickland and the Fish and Wildlife Service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White House Asian Carp Summit]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Zero Tolerance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p>The White House has promised a zero tolerance policy toward new invasive species and they believe that the draft Asian Carp Control Strategy Framework released today at the summit meeting with Great Lakes Governors is proof positive that they are&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/white-house-great-lakes-congressional-watch-2/does-the-white-house-plan-add-up-to-zero-tolerance-for-asian-carp">Does The White House Plan Add Up to Zero Tolerance for Asian Carp?</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org">Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives - Urge Congress to Protect the Great Lakes</a></p>
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		<title>Asian Carp Summit Reveals White House Strategy For Fighting Asian Carp</title>
		<link>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/white-house-great-lakes-congressional-watch-2/asian-carp-summit-reveals-white-house-strategy-for-fighting-asian-carp</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany Danitz Pache</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[White House]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asian Carp Summit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Lakes and Asian Carp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Lakes Governors]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthylakes.org/?p=3861</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>Despite a historic snowfall in the Nation’s Capitol, the White House met with Great Lakes Governors and unveiled both <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=d3d3LmFzaWFuY2FycC5vcmc=">short term and long-term strategies</a> to deal with the Asian Carp. They did not call for the locks to be&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/white-house-great-lakes-congressional-watch-2/asian-carp-summit-reveals-white-house-strategy-for-fighting-asian-carp">Asian Carp Summit Reveals White House Strategy For Fighting Asian Carp</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org">Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives - Urge Congress to Protect the Great Lakes</a></p>
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		<title>David Obey Cracks Door Shedding Some Light on an Increase in GLRI Funds</title>
		<link>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/david-obey-cracks-door-shedding-some-light-on-an-increase-in-glri-funds</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:18:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany Danitz Pache</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Congressional Winners and Losers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Lakes Restoration Initiative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Appropriations Chair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EPA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lisa Jackson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President's 2011 Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. David Obey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RFP]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p>When Appropriations Chair <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL2h0dHA6Ly93d3cub2JleS5ob3VzZS5nb3Yv">David Obey (D-Wisc.)</a> caught wind of a “dear colleague” letter addressed to him and asking him to up the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative from the President’s proposed $300 million back to last year’s $475 million he&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/david-obey-cracks-door-shedding-some-light-on-an-increase-in-glri-funds">David Obey Cracks Door Shedding Some Light on an Increase in GLRI Funds</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org">Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives - Urge Congress to Protect the Great Lakes</a></p>
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		<title>White House Party Crashers? Not the Great Lakes Governors</title>
		<link>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/governors/white-house-party-crashers-not-the-great-lakes-governors</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/governors/white-house-party-crashers-not-the-great-lakes-governors#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:27:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany Danitz Pache</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Governors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cam Davis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Council on Environmental Quality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EPA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governor Daniels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governor Jennifer Granholm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governor Jim Doyle]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mike Cox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sutley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Army Corps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White House Asian Carp Summit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wisconsin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Oh to be a fly on the wall at the White House Asian Carp Summit next Monday, February 8. Who doesn’t want to be there? The Great Lakes Attorney Generals have requested an invite, Healing Our Waters and others working&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/governors/white-house-party-crashers-not-the-great-lakes-governors">White House Party Crashers? Not the Great Lakes Governors</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org">Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives - Urge Congress to Protect the Great Lakes</a></p>
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		<title>Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Funding Still In President&#8217;s Budget</title>
		<link>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/white-house-great-lakes-congressional-watch-2/great-lakes-restoration-initiative-funding-still-in-presidents-budget</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany Danitz Pache</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[White House]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EPA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Lakes Restoration Initiative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great-Lakes-restoration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President's 2011 Budget]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p>The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative in 2011 maintained a line in the President&#8217;s new budget released this a.m. but it was cut from $475 million to $300 million. Last year, President Barack Obama used his first budget to provide money&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/white-house-great-lakes-congressional-watch-2/great-lakes-restoration-initiative-funding-still-in-presidents-budget">Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Funding Still In President&#8217;s Budget</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org">Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives - Urge Congress to Protect the Great Lakes</a></p>
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		<title>HOW Sends EPA Comprehensive Plan of Attack</title>
		<link>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/white-house-great-lakes-congressional-watch-2/how-sends-epa-comprehensive-plan-of-attack</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany Danitz Pache</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[White House]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Advisor to the Administrator Cameron Davis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asian Carp Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Comprehensive Plan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EPA]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Yesterday, the Healing Our Waters Coalition sent Great Lakes Czar Cameron Davis a comprehensive 12-point plan to halt the advance of the Asian Carp. We have to stop the fish from getting a foothold in the Great Lakes ecosystem and&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/white-house-great-lakes-congressional-watch-2/how-sends-epa-comprehensive-plan-of-attack">HOW Sends EPA Comprehensive Plan of Attack</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org">Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives - Urge Congress to Protect the Great Lakes</a></p>
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		<title>Asian Carp Summit Will Happen February 8, 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/white-house-great-lakes-congressional-watch-2/asian-carp-summit-will-happen-february-8-2010</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/white-house-great-lakes-congressional-watch-2/asian-carp-summit-will-happen-february-8-2010#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany Danitz Pache</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[White House]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asian Carp Summit]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthylakes.org/?p=3831</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>In response to the finding of Asian Carp eDNA in the Calumet Harbor on Lake Michigan, and the failure of the US Supreme Court to invoke an injunction closing the locks to help stem any carp advance, the Great Lakes&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/white-house-great-lakes-congressional-watch-2/asian-carp-summit-will-happen-february-8-2010">Asian Carp Summit Will Happen February 8, 2010</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org">Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives - Urge Congress to Protect the Great Lakes</a></p>
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		<title>Pressure Mounts for White House to Make a Public Effort on Carp Issue</title>
		<link>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/white-house-great-lakes-congressional-watch-2/pressure-mounts-for-white-house-to-make-a-public-effort-on-carp-issue</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:17:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany Danitz Pache</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthylakes.org/?p=3821</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>Editorials blanket the Midwest calling for President Barack Obama to step in and do something immediately to stop the advance of the Asian carp into the Great Lakes ecosystem. While the Administration has dedicated funds to deal with the carp&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/white-house-great-lakes-congressional-watch-2/pressure-mounts-for-white-house-to-make-a-public-effort-on-carp-issue">Pressure Mounts for White House to Make a Public Effort on Carp Issue</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org">Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives - Urge Congress to Protect the Great Lakes</a></p>
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		<title>When All Else Fails, Turn To Congress</title>
		<link>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/when-all-else-fails-turn-to-congress</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany Danitz Pache</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Congressional Winners and Losers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asian Carp Advance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congressman Dave Camp (R- Mich)]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthylakes.org/?p=3814</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>A Michigan Congressman reacted to the US Supreme Court&#8217;s failure to invoke a lock closure by introducing a bill in the US House that would force lock closure and further direct the Army Corps of Engineers to build barriers and&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/when-all-else-fails-turn-to-congress">When All Else Fails, Turn To Congress</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org">Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives - Urge Congress to Protect the Great Lakes</a></p>
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		<title>Congress Takes Steps To Obtain Funds To Fight Asian Carp</title>
		<link>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/congress-takes-steps-to-obtain-funds-to-fight-asian-carp</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany Danitz Pache</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Congressional Winners and Losers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asian-Carp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fish poison]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OMB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Vern Ehlers (R-Mich.)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sen. George Voinovich (R-OH)]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthylakes.org/?p=3812</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>A bipartisan group of Great Lakes congressmen called for the Office of Management and Budget and the US Army for Civil Works to ID funds that can be used now and in the future to fight back the march of&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/congress-takes-steps-to-obtain-funds-to-fight-asian-carp">Congress Takes Steps To Obtain Funds To Fight Asian Carp</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org">Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives - Urge Congress to Protect the Great Lakes</a></p>
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		<title>Great Lakes Stakeholders Ask CEQ to Include Them In Asian Carp Strategy Session</title>
		<link>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/white-house-great-lakes-congressional-watch-2/great-lakes-stakeholders-ask-ceq-to-include-them-in-asian-carp-strategy-session</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany Danitz Pache</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[White House]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asian-Carp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CEQ Nancy Sutley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governors]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthylakes.org/?p=3810</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>Within 24 hours of Great Lakes Governors request for a White House Summit on Asian Carp, CEQ Head Nancy Sutley agreed to a meeting the first week of February. Now, HOW and other Great Lakes stakeholders are sending a letter&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/white-house-great-lakes-congressional-watch-2/great-lakes-stakeholders-ask-ceq-to-include-them-in-asian-carp-strategy-session">Great Lakes Stakeholders Ask CEQ to Include Them In Asian Carp Strategy Session</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org">Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives - Urge Congress to Protect the Great Lakes</a></p>
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		<title>White House Puts Asian Carp Summit Off Until February</title>
		<link>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/white-house-great-lakes-congressional-watch-2/asian-carp-summit-put-off-until-february</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany Danitz Pache</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[White House]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asian-Carp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CEQ Nancy Sutley]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthylakes.org/?p=3807</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>Yesterday, HOW learned from the White House that they would welcome a meeting with the Great Lakes Governors to discuss the Asian carp threat, but last night <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5lZW5ld3MubmV0L3BtLzIwMTAvMDEvMjAvNA==">E&#038;E News reported </a>that such a meeting wouldn&#8217;t happen before February.</p>
<p>After&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/white-house-great-lakes-congressional-watch-2/asian-carp-summit-put-off-until-february">White House Puts Asian Carp Summit Off Until February</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org">Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives - Urge Congress to Protect the Great Lakes</a></p>
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		<title>Sen. Dick Durban’s Chicago Asian Carp Summit Uninspired</title>
		<link>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/sen-dick-durban%e2%80%99s-chicago-asian-carp-summit-uninspired</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany Danitz Pache</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Congressional Winners and Losers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asian Carp threat]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthylakes.org/?p=3793</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>Let’s let Congress address the Asian Carp threat to Lake Michigan and the Great Lakes economy and ecosystem – that was Sen. Dick Durban’s (D-Ill) suggestion at a news conference at the Shed Aquarium in Chicago. </p>
<p>An array of&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/sen-dick-durban%e2%80%99s-chicago-asian-carp-summit-uninspired">Sen. Dick Durban’s Chicago Asian Carp Summit Uninspired</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org">Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives - Urge Congress to Protect the Great Lakes</a></p>
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		<title>Congress and Legislators Demand the Asian Carp be Stopped</title>
		<link>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/congress-and-legislators-demand-the-asian-carp-be-stopped</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:33:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany Danitz Pache</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthylakes.org/?p=3771</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>We learned weeks ago that the DNA of Asian Carp was present beyond the electric barrier in the Chicago Sanitary and Shipping Canal but from Congress and the White House we only heard silence. Then last week closed with a&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/congress-and-legislators-demand-the-asian-carp-be-stopped">Congress and Legislators Demand the Asian Carp be Stopped</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org">Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives - Urge Congress to Protect the Great Lakes</a></p>
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		<title>US House Expected to Pass Jobs Bill Tonight: Promising News for Great Lakes Water Infrastructure</title>
		<link>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/us-house-congressional-winners-and-losers-great-lakes-congressional-watch/us-house-expected-to-pass-jobs-bill-tonight-promising-news-for-great-lakes-water-infrastructure</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany Danitz Pache</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Clean Water]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Tonight is the night that the US House intends to put people to work modernizing this nation’s water infrastructure. The jobs bill that is expected to pass tonight provides $1 billion for clean water and $1 billion for drinking water&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/us-house-congressional-winners-and-losers-great-lakes-congressional-watch/us-house-expected-to-pass-jobs-bill-tonight-promising-news-for-great-lakes-water-infrastructure">US House Expected to Pass Jobs Bill Tonight: Promising News for Great Lakes Water Infrastructure</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org">Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives - Urge Congress to Protect the Great Lakes</a></p>
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		<title>Feds Invest In Stopping Asian Carp</title>
		<link>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/white-house-great-lakes-congressional-watch-2/feds-invest-in-stopping-asian-carp</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany Danitz Pache</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[White House]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asian-Carp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EPA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Lakes Restoration Initiative]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthylakes.org/?p=3765</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>As invasive species, Asian Carp were always going get some fiscal attention from the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative funding, and now EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, has announced that $13 million will go directly to trying to stop the carp from&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/white-house-great-lakes-congressional-watch-2/feds-invest-in-stopping-asian-carp">Feds Invest In Stopping Asian Carp</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org">Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives - Urge Congress to Protect the Great Lakes</a></p>
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		<title>Some Great Lakes Congressmen Call for Locks to Close &amp; Permanent Separation of Basins; Others May Follow</title>
		<link>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/some-great-lakes-congressmen-call-for-locks-to-close-others-may-follow</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany Danitz Pache</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Congressional Winners and Losers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Waterways Operators]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asian-Carp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Betty Sutton (OH)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Higgins (NY)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Candice Miller (Mich.)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carl Levin (Mich.)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago Sanitary and Shipping Canal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dave Camp (Mich.)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debbie Stabenow (Mich.)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fred Upton (Mich.)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gary Peters (Mich.)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Voinovich(OH)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Lakes Rapid Response]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great-Lakes-Task-Force]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gwen Moore (Wisc.)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Conyers (Mich.)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Dingell (Mich.)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[July Biggert (Ill.)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Louis Slaughter (NY)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Kirk (Ill.)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Quigley (Ill.)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Rogers (Mich.)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nancy Kaptur (OH)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pete Visclosky (Ind.)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Casey (PA)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ronald Burris (Ill.)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russ Feingold (Wisc.)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sandy Levin (Mich.)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sherrod Brown (OH)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tim Brown (Ind.)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vern Ehlers (Mich.)]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthylakes.org/?p=3739</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>The Great Lakes Task Force has been circulating a letter on Capitol Hill urging immediate action to stop the Asian Carp from entering the Great Lakes. They join Michigan’s Governor in calling for the locks to be closed and consideration&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/some-great-lakes-congressmen-call-for-locks-to-close-others-may-follow">Some Great Lakes Congressmen Call for Locks to Close &#038; Permanent Separation of Basins; Others May Follow</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org">Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives - Urge Congress to Protect the Great Lakes</a></p>
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		<title>Great Lakes Thanks, Rep. Norm Dicks</title>
		<link>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/great-lakes-man-of-the-year-rep-norm-dicks</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/great-lakes-man-of-the-year-rep-norm-dicks#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany Danitz Pache</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Congressional Winners and Losers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Lakes Restoration Initiative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Waters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[great-lakes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malia Hale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[puget sound]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Norm Dicks]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthylakes.org/?p=3735</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>There would be no Great Lakes Restoration Initiative – no $475 million – if it weren’t for a democrat from Washington State: Rep. Norm Dicks. As Chair of the Interior Subcommittee on Appropriations, Rep. Dicks was one of the stars&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/great-lakes-man-of-the-year-rep-norm-dicks">Great Lakes Thanks, Rep. Norm Dicks</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org">Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives - Urge Congress to Protect the Great Lakes</a></p>
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		<title>It is Time for the Restoration of America’s Great Waters</title>
		<link>http://www.healthylakes.org/uncategorized/it-is-time-for-the-restoration-of-america%e2%80%99s-great-waters</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:04:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany Danitz Pache</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Congressional Winners and Losers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Lakes Congressional Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthylakes.org/?p=3724</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>The Great Waters Coalition launched to vivid enthusiasm among members of Congress who want to help restore this nation’s great waters. A number of these Congressmen and women appeared at the Great Waters launch to urge the newly formed coalition&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/uncategorized/it-is-time-for-the-restoration-of-america%e2%80%99s-great-waters">It is Time for the Restoration of America’s Great Waters</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org">Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives - Urge Congress to Protect the Great Lakes</a></p>
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		<title>The Third Wave of Conservationism Hits Washington</title>
		<link>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/us-house-congressional-winners-and-losers-great-lakes-congressional-watch/the-third-wave-of-conservationism-hits-washington</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany Danitz Pache</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[US House]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Senate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chesapeake Bay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coast of Louisiana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coast of Maine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Everglades]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Waters Coalition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Waters Restoration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[great-lakes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Long Island Sound]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[puget sound]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[San Francisco and the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p>With today’s launch of the Great Waters Coalition, the nation’s conservation movement matures into its third and hopefully most powerful wave to ever hit Washington. This morning, on Capitol Hill, representatives of more than 30 organizations working to restore this&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/us-house-congressional-winners-and-losers-great-lakes-congressional-watch/the-third-wave-of-conservationism-hits-washington">The Third Wave of Conservationism Hits Washington</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org">Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives - Urge Congress to Protect the Great Lakes</a></p>
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		<title>Davis’ Quote says it all: &#8220;We knew this day would come.”</title>
		<link>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/davis%e2%80%99-quote-says-it-all-we-knew-this-day-would-come-%e2%80%9d</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany Danitz Pache</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Congressional Winners and Losers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asian-Carp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Attorney General Cox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cameron-davis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago Sanitary and Shipping Canal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fish Kill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Lakes Congressional Delegation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great-Lakes-Task-Force]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lake Michigan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lockport Dam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michigan Governor Granholm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[O'Brian Lock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rapid Response]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p>“We knew this day would come,” Great Lakes Czar Cam Davis told the <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5jaGljYWdvdHJpYnVuZS5jb20vbmV3cy9jaGktYXNpYW4tY2FycC0wNi1iZC1kZWMwNiwwLDU1ODg4NDcuc3Rvcnk=">Chicago Tribune </a>in reference to the threatened great Asian Carp invasion of 2010. Davis promises that as early as today there could be a decision made&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/davis%e2%80%99-quote-says-it-all-we-knew-this-day-would-come-%e2%80%9d">Davis’ Quote says it all: &#8220;We knew this day would come.”</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org">Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives - Urge Congress to Protect the Great Lakes</a></p>
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		<title>Close The Locks!</title>
		<link>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/close-the-locks</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany Danitz Pache</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Great Lakes Congressional Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asian-Carp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Lakes Congressional Delegation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Locks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Close the locks, they are three words, easy to say, but for some reason not one of our Great Lakes Congressional Delegation has uttered them. The silence from the Hill and the White House is deafening.</p>
<p>Well, it is Friday&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/close-the-locks">Close The Locks!</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org">Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives - Urge Congress to Protect the Great Lakes</a></p>
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		<title>Sen. Carl Levin Pushes Bill To Stop Asian Carp</title>
		<link>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/sen-carl-levin-pushes-bill-to-stop-asian-carp</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/sen-carl-levin-pushes-bill-to-stop-asian-carp#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany Danitz Pache</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Great Lakes Congressional Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asian-Carp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asian-carp-Barrier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sen Russ Feingold]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sen. Charles Schumer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sen. Debbie Stabenow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sen. George Voinovich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sen. Richard Durbin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sen. Robert Casey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Senator Carl Levin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthylakes.org/?p=3706</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., today urged a Senate panel to take action against the threat of Asian carp, specifically Bighead carp, entering the Great Lakes by passing a bill he introduced earlier this year. Levin, the co-chair of the&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/sen-carl-levin-pushes-bill-to-stop-asian-carp">Sen. Carl Levin Pushes Bill To Stop Asian Carp</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org">Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives - Urge Congress to Protect the Great Lakes</a></p>
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		<title>Wisconsin’s Ballast Permit Could Inspire Washington to Act</title>
		<link>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/wisconsin%e2%80%99s-ballast-permit-could-inspire-washington-to-act</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany Danitz Pache</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Great Lakes Congressional Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ballast standard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coast Guard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Lakes Delegation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Lakes United]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IMO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[invasive-species]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jen Nalbone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Nick Milroy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wisconsin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthylakes.org/?p=3691</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>Wisconsin is the latest state to set its own ballast standard for ships working in the Great Lakes. <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5ub3J0aGxhbmRzbmV3c2NlbnRlci5jb20vbmV3cy9sb2NhbC83MDQ4NjM0Ny5odG1s">Last week </a>the state revealed their permit that will require the shipping industry to upgrade treatment systems to prevent more invasive&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/wisconsin%e2%80%99s-ballast-permit-could-inspire-washington-to-act">Wisconsin’s Ballast Permit Could Inspire Washington to Act</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org">Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives - Urge Congress to Protect the Great Lakes</a></p>
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		<title>A Thanksgiving Card for our Elected Representatives</title>
		<link>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/a-thanksgiving-card-for-our-elected-representatives</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany Danitz Pache</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Congressional Winners and Losers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[$475 million for Great Lakes restoration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Candidate for President Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carl-Levin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David-Obey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Full Funding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George-Voinovich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Lakes Restoration Initative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great-Lakes-Congressional-Task-Force]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great-Lakes-Regional-Collaboration-Strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Herb-Kohl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Norm Dicks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[puget sound]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rahm-Emanuel]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthylakes.org/?p=3674</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>This has been an amazing year for the Great Lakes. Last winter, President Obama added a line to his budget that read: <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy53aGl0ZWhvdXNlLmdvdi9vbWIvYnVkZ2V0L2Z5MjAxMC9hc3NldHMvZXBhLnBkZg==">Great Lakes Restoration Initiative: $475 million</a>. The money is the first installment toward the $5 billion Obama&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/a-thanksgiving-card-for-our-elected-representatives">A Thanksgiving Card for our Elected Representatives</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org">Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives - Urge Congress to Protect the Great Lakes</a></p>
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		<title>Rep. David Obey Came Through On GLRI Funding</title>
		<link>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/rep-david-obey-came-through-on-glri-funding</link>
		<comments>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/rep-david-obey-came-through-on-glri-funding#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany Danitz Pache</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Congressional Winners and Losers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Lakes Congressional Delegation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Lakes Restoration Initiative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Lakes Restoration Strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[House Appropriations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. David Obey]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.healthylakes.org/?p=3667</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>Let’s give kudos where kudos are due and right now that is to Wisconsin <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5vYmV5LmhvdXNlLmdvdi8=">Rep. David Obey</a>, who used his position as Chair of the House Appropriations Committee to ensure that the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) made it&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/congressional-winners-and-losers/rep-david-obey-came-through-on-glri-funding">Rep. David Obey Came Through On GLRI Funding</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org">Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives - Urge Congress to Protect the Great Lakes</a></p>
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		<title>Oceans Task Force (Includes Great Lakes)to Testify at Hearing</title>
		<link>http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/white-house-great-lakes-congressional-watch-2/oceans-task-force-includes-great-lakesto-testify-at-hearing</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:11:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany Danitz Pache</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[White House]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cam Davis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cleveland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Lakes Regional Restoration Strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeff-Skelding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nancy Sutley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oceans Task Force]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5lZW5ld3MubmV0L0VFRGFpbHkvMjAwOS8xMS8wMi83Lw==">Tomorrow </a>a US Senate Commerce Subcommittee will hear a progress report from the new Oceans Task Force that will likely sum up the input they received from the listening tour that ended last week in Cleveland, Ohio where the Great&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://www.healthylakes.org/great-lakes-congressional-watch/white-house-great-lakes-congressional-watch-2/oceans-task-force-includes-great-lakesto-testify-at-hearing">Oceans Task Force (Includes Great Lakes)to Testify at Hearing</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.healthylakes.org">Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives - Urge Congress to Protect the Great Lakes</a></p>
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