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Pallone lauds Completion of 100 Hours Agenda

Date: Jan. 18, 2007
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Senior Citizens Stem Cell Research Employment and Affirmative Action Health Insurance Higher Education Legislative Branch


PALLONE LAUDS COMPLETION OF 100 HOURS AGENDA

U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement on completion of the Democratic 100 Hour Agenda.

"Last year during the political campaign House Democrats promised to pass six pieces of legislation if the American people trusted us with control of the House. The American people were looking for a new direction, and turned to us to get them there.

"In the first three weeks of the new Congress, we have not disappointed. Democrats have delivered on all six promises. During 100 Hours, we have increased the minimum wage, implemented the 9/11 Commission recommendations, cut student loan interest rates in half, repealed preposterous welfare handouts to Big Oil, approved federal funding for promising stem cell research and provided our government the ability to negotiate lower prescription drug prices for America's seniors.

"Six major pieces of legislation----passed by this House within the first 100 Hours of the 110th Congress. This legislation begins to move our nation in a new direction, one where the needs of all Americans are finally addressed in the House.

"These six pieces of legislation will produce real results for the American people, and that is why they garnered such strong bipartisan support over the last three weeks. And this is only the beginning."

http://www.house.gov/list/press/nj06_pallone/pr_100hrscomplete_11807.html

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