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Article: CNY CONGRESSMEN KEY VOTES ON CLIMATE PROPOSAL; REP. MAFFEI SAYS PROPOSED BILL PENALIZES NEW YORK'S GREEN ENERGY EFFORTS.(News)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- June 26, 2009
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Byline: Mark Weiner Washington Bureau
Central New York's congressional delegation emerged Thursday as key voices in a landmark energy and climate bill that President Obama said could come to a vote of "historic proportions" today.
As of Thursday night, the region's Democratic House members were still undecided whether to support their party in what some have called the most important vote by Congress on an environmental issue in almost three decades.
Reps. Dan Maffei, D-DeWitt, and Michael Arcuri, D-Utica, said they were among Upstate New York House members subject to intense lobbying in recent days as it became clear the bill's sponsors would ...