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May
2013
Press release – The State Pension and Health Benefits Review Commission recommended today enacting Assemblyman Ronald S. Dancer’s proposal to close an archaic, but legal, loophole that allows individuals who are no longer dependent on a public employee to receive taxpayer-funded health benefits. “New Jersey law makes taxpayers pay for other people’s martial problems,” Dancer, …
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May
2013
From: NJ Spotlight – Gov. Chris Christie got a double dose of good news this week, as New Jersey’s April unemployment rate dipped below 9 percent for the first time in four years and state revenue collections met his Treasury Department’s revised targets. Echoing former President Ronald Reagan, an ebullient Christie declared at a town …
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May
2013
Source: Assembly Republican Press Release Assembly Republican Budget Officer Declan O’Scanlon, R- Monmouth, said today’s report from the Treasury Department that revenues for April showed a 6.9 percent year-to-date increase compared to last year are evidence that New Jersey’s economy is on the path to a solid recovery. O’Scanlon also pointed to the report issued …
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May
2013
Source: Assembly Republican Press Release Assembly Republican Leader Jon Bramnick, R-Union, Somerset and Morris, issued the following statement regarding the positive news regarding the Treasury Department’s latest report on revenues for April which indicate a 6.9 percent year-to-date increase compared to last year. The Treasury Department’s report comes on the heels of news from the …
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May
2013
Source: Assembly Republican Press Release Assembly Republican Leader Jon Bramnick, R-Union, Somerset and Morris, issued the following statement on the latest jobs data released today by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) which shows the state’s unemployment rate fell to 8.7 percent in April, down 0.3 percentage points from March, and is the state’s …
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May
2013
From: NJ 101.5 FM (w/audio) — Unemployment benefits in New Jersey for people who receive full severance pay would be delayed if a newly introduced bill becomes law. Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli sponsors the measure that he says is designed to reform New Jerseys’ unemployment insurance benefits program and further strengthen the state’s Unemployment Insurance (UI) …
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May
2013
From: The Times of Trenton — The following is Assemblyman Anthony M. Bucco’s letter to the Editor in The Times of Trenton: It’s refreshing to hear my colleagues across the aisle express concern about taxes, because many of them spent the previous decade raising taxes and fees more than 115 times, which had a negative …
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May
2013
From: New Jersey Law Journal — Legislators are pushing a bill that would allow crime victims and their families to compel the defendant to face them in court at time of sentencing. Do you agree? Click here for NJ 101.5 FM’s Ray Rossi’s online poll asking “Should criminals be made to face the people they’ve …
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May
2013
From: Burlington County Times — Burlington County legislator Scott Rudder wants to give local neighborhoods and community associations some say on the speed limits of certain local streets. A bill penned by Rudder and Assemblywoman Celeste Riley would require the New Jersey Department of Transportation to reduce the speed limit on qualified local roads from …
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May
2013
From: Westwood-Hillsdale Patch – A group of lawmakers from New Jersey and New York met in Pearl River, N.Y. Wednesday to urge Gov. Andrew Cuomo to sign a bill to create a bi-state flood commission. The commission would address flooding issues in waterways that flow between Rockland and Bergen Counties, including the Pascack Brook. Gov. …
