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2007

August

  • Great Lakes Ecosystem Restoration
  • Aquatic Invasive Species
  • Water Resources Development Act
  • Water Quality
  • Great Lakes Environmental Summit
  • Great Lakes Day
  • Fiscal 2008 Budget
  • Appropriations

2006

December

  • 2006 Elections
  • Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Restoration Act
  • Water Resources Development Act
  • Fiscal 2007 Appropriations
  • Great Lakes Ecosystem Restoration
  • Tonnage Tax

September

  • Invasive Species
  • Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Restoration Act
  • Water Resources Development Act
  • Fiscal 2007 Appropriations
  • Tonnage Tax
  • Water Quality

    April

  • Great Lakes Ecosystem Restoration
  • Oil and Gas Moratorium
  • Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife
  • Great Lakes Environmental Summit
  • Fiscal 2007 Budget
  • Great Lakes Day
  • Appropriations

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2005

January

  • Invasive Species
  • Great Lakes Ecosystem Restoration
  • Harmful Algal Blooms and Hypoxia
  • Fiscal 2005 Appropriations

    May

  • New House Great Lakes Task Force Co-Chair
  • Invasive Species Legislation
  • Great Lakes Ecosystem Restoration
  • WRDA
  • Oil and Gas Drilling Moratorium
  • Monitoring
  • Great Lakes Environmental Summit
  • Great Lakes Congressional Breakfast
  • Appropriations
  • Fiscal Year 2006 Budget

    September

  • New House Great Lakes Task Force Co-Chair
  • Invasive Species Legislation
  • Great Lakes Ecosystem Restoration
  • WRDA
  • Oil and Gar Drilling Moratorium
  • Fiscal 2006 Appropriations

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2004

April

  • Invasive Species
  • Water Resource Development Act
  • Great Lakes Restoration
  • Maritime Heritage
  • Great Lakes Congressional Breakfast
  • Research
  • Oil Drilling Moratorium
  • Great Lakes Environmental Summit
  • Water Levels
  • Great Lakes Mayors
  • Water Management
  • Fiscal 2005 Budget

    August

  • Invasive Species
  • Great Lakes Ecosystem Restoration
  • WRDA
  • Water Management
  • Research
  • Fiscal 2006 Budget

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2003

April

  • Invasive Species
  • Great Lakes Environmental Summit

    September

  • Great Lakes Ecosystem Restoration
  • Invasive Species
  • Appropriations
  • Great Lakes Monitoring

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2002

April

  • Budget
  • Great Lakes Environmental Summit
  • Invasive Species
  • Port and Northern Border Security
  • Great Lakes Congressional Breakfast
  • Water Infrastructure
  • Farm Bill

    September

  • Appropriations
  • Invasive Species
  • Water Resource and Development Act
  • Contaminated Sediments
  • Anoxia

    December

  • Contaminated Sediments
  • Invasive Species
  • Water Resource and Development Act
  • Appropriations

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2001

May

  • Appropriations
  • Restoration Initiative
  • Great Lakes Congressional Breakfast
  • Drilling in the Great Lakes
  • Pipelines Under the Great Lakes
  • Invasive Species
  • Brownfields Legislation

    September

  • Appropriations
  • Farm Bill
  • Contaminated Sediments
  • Oil and Gas Drilling
  • Contaminated Sediments
  • Invasive Species
  • Conservation and Reinvestment Act (CARA)

    December

  • Great Lakes Restoration Initiative
  • Appropriations
  • Invasive Species
  • Farm Bill
  • Oil and Natural Gas Drilling in the Great Lakes
  • Northern Border Issues

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2000

January

  • Appropriations
  • Profile: Great Lakes Appropriation Committee Member Senator Herb Kohl
  • WRDA 1999
  • Great Lakes Task Force Leadership
  • Profile: Rep. John McHugh
  • Profile: Rep. Sherrod Brown

    March

  • Appropriations Fiscal 2001: Administration Budget
  • Appropriations Fiscal 2001- Great Lakes Task Force Letters
  • Fiscal 2001 Appropriations Request for Great Lakes Programs
  • Great Lakes Fisheries Roundtable
  • Profile: House Appropriations Ranking Member David Obey

    June

  • Conservation and Reinvestment Act
  • Water Resources Development Act of 2000
  • Appropriations for Fiscal 2001
  • World Water day with Canadian Minister for the Environment
  • Lake Levels Briefing
  • Deposition of Air Pollutants to the Great Waters, June 13, 2000
  • LaMPs and AOCs Briefing

    July

  • Congressional Response to Low Great Lakes Water Levels
  • Appropriations Update
  • Senate Committee Approves the Conservation and Reinvestment Act

    December

  • FY 2001 Appropriations
    • Great Lakes Fisheries and Ecosystem Restoration (FY 2001 Appropriations)
    • Conservation and Reinvestment Act ( FY 2001 Appropriations
    • Great Lakes
    • Aquatic Nuisance Species Prevention and Control
  • The Water Resource Development Act of 2000
  • Estuaries and Clean Water Act
  • Congressional Briefings on Persistent Organic Pollutants
  • Election 2000

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1999

March

  • President's fiscal 2000 budget request
  • Appropriations
  • Great Lakes Task Force organizational meetings
  • Great Lakes Environmental Summit
  • Outer Continental Shelf Legislation

    June

  • Senator DeWint to co-chair Senate Great Lakes Task Force
  • Fiscal 2000 Appropriations
  • Water Resources Development Act
  • Great Lakes water levels
  • Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) legislation
  • Regulatory reform legislation

    September

  • Fiscal 2000 appropriations: A mixed bag
  • Water Resources Development Act reauthorization includes Great Lakes provisions
  • Briefings held on Great Lakes water diversions
  • Outer Continental Shelf legislation still on the move
  • Environmentalists address air toxics

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1998

November

  • Great Lakes Appropriations finale
  • Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Restoration Act
  • Coast Guard authorization bill
  • Water Resources Development Act
  • St. Lawrence Seaway Administrator

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1997

March

  • Budget and appropriations
  • Task Force planning
  • Committee assigments
  • Hearing on the National Sea Grant College Program reauthorization
  • Economic benefits
  • Great Lakes Environmental Summit

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1996

April

  • President releases 1997 budget
  • National Invasive Species Act introduced
  • Experts discuss nonindigenous species invasions
  • Region's delegation wary of Army Corps restructuring plan
  • Legislative update ( CWA, WRDA, Farm Bill 1996, and Appropriations)

    September

  • Task Force defend GLNPO and other Great Lakes appropriations
  • Great Lakes senators contend sea lamprey program in jeopardy
  • Great Lakes appropriations
  • Status of legislation in 104th Congress
  • Great Lakes members may save Army Corps North Central Division Office
  • Senate seeks "reinvention" of St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation

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1995

February

  • House and Senate committees consider fiscal 1995 rescissions: Great Lakes programs- along with everything else- in jeopardy
  • Congressional/Parliamentary dialogue creates binational forum on the Great Lakes
  • House eliminates LSOs
  • House and Senate reorganize committee structure: Great Lakees members, jurisdictions change
  • President Clinton delivers budget to Congress: Several Great Lakes programs cut

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1994

June

  • Committees mark-up appropriations bills
  • Members testify on behalf of Great Lakes programs
  • ASTDR holds fish consumption symposium, staff briefing
  • EPA releases "Great Waters" Report

    August

  • House and Senate complete Great Lakes appropriations bills
  • Task Force members 'instruct conferees'
  • Canada-Ontario sign agreement for coordinated Great Lakes action
  • House passes martime reform: Bill subsidizes shipbuilding and operating
  • Growth in Great Lakes biodiversity or just another aquatic nuisance species?

    October

  • Great Lakes appropriations round-up
  • Unfinished business: Authorizing vehicles for Task Force initiatives stall in Congress
  • Congress waives billing and collection of U.S. Seaway tolls
  • Congress passes Maritime Heritage Act
  • Construction on new lock at the Soo moves forward slowly
  • St. Lawrence Seaway vessel trackign system unveiled
  • Task Force members point out NOAA funding inequities
  • NEMW hosts sustainable agriculture roundtable
  • EPA-- Environment Canada sponsor State of the Lakes Ecosystem Conference
  • Cargo sweeping investigated

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1993

January

  • Corps reorganization neglects Great Lakes
  • Great Lakes members assigned to key committees
  • Court orders EPA to publish Great Lakes Water Quality Initiative
  • EPA fish contaminant study released

    April

  • Clinton submits 1994 budget to Congress
  • EPA releases Great Lakes Water Quality Initiative
  • Corps reorganization suspended
  • USCG Mackinaw to be decommissioned
  • Coast Guard begins ballast water program

    May

  • Members go to bat for the Great Lakes: Letters, testimony presented to various subcommittees
  • Great Lakes water quality guidelines open for public review
  • Task Force members fight to save icebreaker Mackinaw
  • Members raise Great Lakes maritime concerns with Secretary Pena

    July

  • Great Lakes Task Force holds news conference
  • Oberstart focuses on nonpoint source pollution and sediment management bills

    August

  • Appropriations process underway
  • Great Lakes Water Quality Initiative continues to receive public comments
  • Levin ammendment boosts sea lamprey control funds
  • House and Senate continue Clean Water Act debate
  • Great Lakes vacation picks

    December

  • International Joint Commission hold biennial meeting
  • Appropriations process nearly complete: Great Lakes program hold their own
  • House votes to maintain subsidies for U.S. flag ships
  • Lipinski introduces Ballast Control Act
  • NAFTA passes House and Senate: Great Lakes community express strong but disparate opinions

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1992

February

  • Great Lakes SWAT Team assembles
  • The President's Budget
  • Senate Task Force prepares to send letter on NFTA
  • Glen and Kaptur critizes Corps' disposal plan for contaminated dredge material
  • IJC looks for ways to cut costs at Canadian regional office
  • NOAA Budget Hearing

    March

  • Great Lakes Water Quality Initiative subject of staff briefing
  • Great Lakes shipping interest split on shipbuilding trade reform act
  • Appropriations Subcommittee looks at Seaway funding
  • Senate Committee to consider reform of flood insurance program
  • Zebra Mussel Watch: Blue crabs found in snacking on mussels

    April

  • Great Lakes Commission calls for federal funding for Soo Locks/CDFs
  • IJC releases a report " Air quality in the Detroit-Windsor/Port Huron-Sarnia region"

    May 1

  • Report on Great Lakes funding released at press conference
  • Nowak reviews ARCS program
  • Glenn examines Great Laks fish consumption advisories
  • Hertel reviews Great Lakes research

    May 22

  • Senator urge action on Great Lakes Water Quality Initiative
  • Ferry service to return to Lake Michigan
  • Hertel announces NOAA's plans for new Great Lakes research vessel
  • House postpones Undesea Research Bill
  • Groups reveal details of Great Lakes Legacy Program

    June 5

  • House member urge funding for Great Lakes programs
  • Environmentalists assail Bush in Brazil
  • Jontz introduces bill to allow Great Lakes diversion
  • MACKINAW to be modernized
  • Flood insurance reform bill considered in Senate panel

    June 19

  • Nowak, Hertel and Davis sponsor research bills
  • EPA and USTR defend NAFTA
  • Sedimentation-- A serious problem in the Great Lakes

    July

  • House passes Undersea Research Bill
  • Mercury may threaten Great Lakes loons
  • EPA's decision for Great Lakes basin superfund site questioned
  • Research bills pass full committee

    August

  • Appropriations update
  • Water Resource Act pending
  • Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Tissue Bank Act passed by the House
  • New mussel species discovered
  • Kayakers complete expedition
  • Senator Glenn to introduce Research Bill
  • Lake Carriers' trip postponed

    October

  • Appropriations highlights
  • Several Great Lakes measures pass in session's final days
  • Great Lakes sediment provisions still pending
  • Members send letter on ship repair tariff
  • New House Task Force coordinator joins Great Lakes SWAT team
  • Zebra Mussel Alert

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