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			<title><![CDATA[Rep. Miller to co-chair new jobs caucus]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Rep. Candice Miller, R-Harrison Township, will announce today the creation of a bi-partisan &quot;Jobs Now!&quot; congressional caucus. Miller will be one of its three co-chairs.


The caucus will look for ways to create jobs without increasing taxes or the deficit.


The co-chairs are from]]></description>
			<author>(Deb Price)</author>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:42:05</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[GOP primary to take on Rep. Schauer ranked among top 7]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[A Capitol Hill newspaper picks the Republican battle for the chance to take on freshman Rep. Mark Schauer, D-Battle Creek, as one of the top seven primaries in the country.


Tim Walberg, who held the seat for one term before Schauer ousted him, faces attorney Brian Rooney in the Aug. 3 primary]]></description>
			<author>(Deb Price)</author>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:37:19</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Rep. Schauer holding health care town hall]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Rep. Mark Schauer, D-Battle Creek, hosts the first of several town halls on the House-passed health care bill on Thursday.


Schauer and Michigan's seven other Democrats voted for the bill, which passed the House narrowly, 220-215.


Town halls on health care became a flash point last August.]]></description>
			<author>(Deb Price)</author>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:47:50</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Buses in Michigan get 'mini-hybrid' boost]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Michigan will receive a $363,609 grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to make transit buses across the state more fuel-efficient.

The grants were announced this week by Sens. Carl Levin, D-Detroit, and Debbie Stabenow, D-Lansing.

The Michigan Department of Transportation will use]]></description>
			<author>(Nick Assendelft)</author>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:37:12</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[President names Metro Detroiter to arts committee]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama has appointed a Metro Detroit arts supporter to the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities.

Madeleine Harris Berman, a member of the Boards of Directors of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Michigan Opera Theater and the Detroit Zoological Institute, was appointed]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:22:42</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Senate could pass its jobless benefits bill tonight]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Senate could pass its extension of unemployment benefits as early as tonight.


The Senate is expected to take up the issue again at 4 this afternoon, and then vote on whether to end debate and proceed to a vote on the bill.  That vote is expected to get at least the 60-vote margin necessary]]></description>
			<author>(Deb Price)</author>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:25:14</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[White House says 22,514 stimulus jobs created in Michigan]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration said today that 22,514 direct jobs have been created so far in Michigan out of the $787 billion stimulus package.

But Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Holland, criticized the announcement.  &quot;You have to looked at what's happened to the economy overall since the stimulus bill]]></description>
			<author>(Deb Price)</author>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:02:20</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Rep. Schauer comes out in favor of health care bill]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Rep. Mark Schauer, D-Battle Creek, said today he'll support the newly unveiled Democratic health care bill.


&quot;This is the plan we need to fix our broken health care system and get our economy back on track by reducing the federal deficit by $30 billion over the next decade,&quot; said]]></description>
			<author>(Deb Price)</author>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:23:38</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[House-Senate conferees agree to $475 million for Great Lakes]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[House-Senate conferees today approved an Interior appropriations bill that includes $475 million for Great Lakes restoration.


The conferees chose to go with the full $475 million passed by the House and favored by President Barack Obama over the $400 million that had been passed by the]]></description>
			<author>(Deb Price)</author>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:50:42</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Senate votes 87-13 to proceed on jobless benefits extension]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Senate voted overwhelmingly to move ahead on considering extending jobless benefits. Michigan Sens. Debbie Stabenow, D-Lansing, and Carl Levin, D-Detroit, voted to move ahead on the legislation.


But the final vote may not take place until late this week or next week because of the]]></description>
			<author>(Deb Price)</author>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:40:49</pubDate>
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