Manufacturing Industry
Bills must wait for Congress.(News)(Brief article)
Plastics News, October, 2006 by Verespej, Mike
Byline: Mike Verespej With Congress in recess until after the November elections, the window of opportunity is shrinking for legislators to enact two issues important to the plastics industry: funding for a 6-year-old program that speeds up the approval of new food-packaging applications, and legislation to permit drilling for natural gas on the Outer Continental Shelf.
During the summer, both the House and Senate - for the first time in 25 years - passed bills that would allow offshore drilling for natural gas on the OCS. There is concern that momentum for that legislation may be slipping away. Despite assertions from leaders in both the Senate and the House that a bill will emerge and their pledges to make renewed efforts at a compromise when Congress...
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