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Lieberman, Kerry back bottle bill.(News)(senators John Kerry, Joe Lieberman)(Brief Article)
Plastics News, November, 2003
Two Democratic candidates for president are signing on to a national bottle bill being introduced by Sen. Jim Jeffords, I-Vt. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., are co-sponsoring the bill, which would put a 10 cent deposit on beverage containers. Jeffords said in a Nov.
14 news release that the bill sets a goal of recycling 80 percent of containers and holds the beverage industry responsible for designing a system to do that, similar to legislation he introduced last year. While last year's bill attracted attention because Democrats controlled the Senate and Jeffords ran the Environment and Public Works Committee, the political climate is different in a Republican-controlled Senate, where Jeffords has much less power. Bottle-bill...
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