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Federal Legislators React to New EPA Inspector General Report on

Ringwood Superfund Site

Includes vital provisions to keep NJ children and working families from being cast into the ranks of the uninsured.

Gene Andrew Maguire represented New Jersey in Congress from 1975 to 1981Immunization, a new major U.S. philanthropic effort formed with an initial grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The GAVI Fund is the financing arm of the GAVI Alliance, which is working to increase children’s access to life-saving vaccines in the world’s poorest 75 countries.

Maguire, 68, worked for the U.S. Department of State and ran an urban development program in New York City before winning election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1974 -- he defeated eleven-term GOP Congressman William Widnall, the Ranking Republican on the House Banking Committee. 

National Republicans believe Mike Ferguson and Frank Lautenberg are potentially vulnerable in 2008, according to a White House Office of Political Affairs presentation made to GSA employees. The report was was posted on the House Oversight and Government Reform Comittee website.

The decision of Assemblyman Bill Baroni to run for Peter Inverso's State Senate seat effectively ends his fledgling campaign for the 2008 Republican U.S. Senate nomination. That makes Assemblyman Michael Doherty, a conservative from Warren County, the nominal front runner to challenge octogenerian incumbent Frank Lautenberg.

NEWARK - New Jersey’s United States Senators were coy on Monday when about who they would like to see as the Democratic presidential nominee in 2008.

“I’m very happy with my job now,� Sen. Robert Menendez said with a laugh. “Oh, you mean, who do I like among the existing candidates?�

That’s right.

Menendez wouldn’t commit to anyone.

“They’re all incredibly talented,� he said.

Sen. Frank Lautenberg slammed the Bush Administration on Monday for what he described as an administration effort to weaken state homeland security regulations governing chemical plants, by essentially allowing chemical companies to override strict New Jersey regs.

At a public hearing he chaired in Newark, Lautenberg repeatedly asked Lawrence Stanton, a spokesman for the federal Department of Homeland Security, why the administration’s new homeland security proposals preempt state laws – notably the state’s 1984 Toxic Catastrophe Prevention Act - with federal guidelines that weaken regulations and make chemical plants less safe.

Scott MulhauserSome changes in U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg's office: Scott Mullhauser, who worked for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and former U.S. Senator Robert Torricelli, will become Senior Advisor and Counsel to Lautenberg and direct his communications office; and Michael Pagan, a former Herald News reporter who worked for Assembly Speakers Albio Sires and Joseph Roberts, will be the new Press Secretary. They replace Alex Formuzis, who has joined The Environmental Working Group.

Pagan played on the championship Assembly Democratic softball team, making the struggling Senate Democratic team a winner in Pagan's decision to work for the state's senior Senator.