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Subject: Yippee!!!

Author:
Stephen
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Date Posted: 10:09:57 03/08/07 Thu
In reply to: Bev 's message, "House passes clean water bill. 58 votes against all rep" on 16:57:29 03/07/07 Wed

This will probabaly save lives. It has been said that man's recent longevity owes more to sewers and clean water than any other single societal change.

> >href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/arti
>cle/2007/03/07/AR2007030701830.html">http://www.washing
>tonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/07/AR2007030
>701830.html
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>House OKs $1.7 Billion Clean-Water Bill
>
>By JIM ABRAMS
>The Associated Press
>Wednesday, March 7, 2007; 5:31 PM
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>WASHINGTON -- The House on Wednesday overwhelmingly
>endorsed federal help for communities faced with
>deteriorating sewage systems, ignoring White House
>warnings that the cost was too high.
>
>The legislation, approved 367-58, would spend $1.7
>billion over five years in federal grants to states
>and municipalities to modernize wastewater systems and
>control sewage overflows that pollute rivers and
>streams and pose health risks. Those voting against
>the bill, which now moves to the Senate, were all
>Republicans.
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>All cameras are pointed at Scooter Libby and his wife,
>Harriet Grant, as they try to make their way back to
>the federal courthouse after the guilty verdict. Libby
>didn't talk to the media but did help up a cameraman
>who was knocked over. (Mark Gail -- The Washington
>Post)
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>SEE FULL COLLECTION
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Yes this is great news, Now if the rep in the senate do sabotage it . nt Bev 10:21:46 03/08/07 Thu

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Yes this is great news, Now if the rep in the senate do sabotage it . nt	Bev	10:21:46 03/08/07 Thu