D.C. sojourn.Seventy members of the L.A. Area Chamber of Commerce and other local business groups made the rounds with L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Antonio Ramon Villaraigosa (born Antonio (Tony) Ramon Villar, Jr. on January 23, 1953) is the mayor of Los Angeles, California. He is the first Latino mayor of Los Angeles since Cristobal Aguilar in 1872. last week in Washington D.C., pushing for more funds for transportation and goods movement. Chamber executive vice president Ron Gastelum said the chamber pushed for passage of HR 4594, the Safe Port Act, by Rep. Jane Harman
Jane Lakes Harman (born June 28 1945), is a seven-term Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the 36th District of California (map). , D-Redondo Beach and Dan Lungren Daniel Edward (Dan) Lungren (born September 22, 1946), is a Republican of the United States House of Representatives representing California's 3rd congressional district (see map), located in the suburbs of Sacramento where he has served since 2005. , R-Sacramento. That bill, which passed the House and is pending in the Senate, would provide $400 million for port security, much of that going to the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. The chamber also lobbied members of Congress and the Bush administration to gather up support for the Doha round of international trade negotiations. And chamber representatives pushed to defeat HR 1201, the Digital Media Consumer Rights Act. Gastelum said the Chamber believes this bill would legalize le·gal·ize tr.v. le·gal·ized, le·gal·iz·ing, le·gal·iz·es To make legal or lawful; authorize or sanction by law. le forms of DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. hacking and game copying software, thus hurting L.A. area entertainment firms. |
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