George LeMieux

Type: Person

Name: George LeMieux

First Reported 10 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 Documents

U.S. Sugar land deal worth keeping alive

South Florida water managers made the sensible decision this week to keep alive for now a major land purchase for Everglades restoration. While the deal to buy farmland is too sweet for U.S. Sugar, the move is a historic opportunity to return the natural ... [Published 10 hours ago by St. Petersburg Times]

Entities: Everglades (United States), United States, George LeMieux, Sugar

First Reported 14 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 1 Documents

Michael Sullivan

Is This Fighter Jet Worth $131 Million?

WASHINGTON (March 12) -- The Pentagon is acknowledging that its largest-ever weapons program is years behind schedule, tens of billions of dollars over budget and in the initial stages of a testing program that could uncover problems that will push costs ... [Published 14 hours ago by AOL News]

Entities: Michael Sullivan, George LeMieux, Claire McCaskill, Government Accountability Office

First Reported Mar 12 2010 - Updated Mar 12 2010 - 1 Documents

Richard G Lugar

Obama convenes key Senators to hammer out wish list for stalled US climate bill

Part of: , COP15 , Climate change President Obama this week summoned key senators to the White House to reach consensus on the stalled climate bill. whitehouse.gov NEW YORK – US President Obama this week huddled for the first time with Senators who are ... [Published Mar 12 2010 by Bellona Foundation]

Entities: Climate, Clean Coal, Richard G Lugar, Barack Obama, Nuclear Power

First Reported Mar 11 2010 - Updated Mar 11 2010 - 1 Documents

Diageo PLC

Rum cover-over bill approved by Senate; amendment dies -- Vote in Washington defeats plan to split revenues by population

ST. THOMAS - The U.S. Senate voted to renew the territory's ability to collect rum revenues Tuesday, protecting a needed revenue stream for the Virgin Islands.The Senate also blocked an amendment from being attached to the bill that would have given most ... [Published Mar 11 2010 by Virgin Islands Daily News]

Entities: Puerto Rico, Diageo PLC, Taxes, George LeMieux

First Reported Mar 11 2010 - Updated Mar 11 2010 - 1 Documents

Barack Obama

Obama meets Senators on stalled Climate Bill

- US President Obama this week met for the first time with Senators who are pushing the currently mothballed climate bill, meeting with a dozen crucial senators in a final surge to pass the legislation that is bound to be fraught with a number of compromised ... [Published Mar 11 2010 by Carbon Capture Journal]

Entities: Climate, Clean Coal, Richard G Lugar, Barack Obama, Nuclear Power

First Reported Mar 10 2010 - Updated Mar 11 2010 - 3 Documents

George LeMieux

Senate expected to pass jobs bill today

The measure illustrates the great extent to which direct help for the jobless and the poor makes up a large portion of Democrats' election-year agenda on jobs — and threatens to squeeze out other items amid concerns about a budget deficit projected at ... [Published Mar 10 2010 by Chicago Tribune]

Entities: Budget Deficit, Taxes, George LeMieux, Unemployment

First Reported Mar 09 2010 - Updated Mar 10 2010 - 3 Documents

Lindsey Graham

At White House: 14 senators discuss climate-energy legislation

The White House hosted a meeting Tuesday with 14 key senators, many from coal- and oil-producing states, who oppose curbs on carbon emissions. Obama appears to be making a big push to win Senate passage of revamped climate-energy legislation.Senators ... [Published Mar 10 2010 by Christian Science Monitor]

Entities: Lindsey Graham, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Capture and Storage, David Doniger

First Reported Mar 09 2010 - Updated Mar 09 2010 - 1 Documents

Senator hears from both sides at health care forum

Republican U.S. Sen. George LeMieux called his own town meeting on the health care Monday, then heard from both factions of the national debate.The Beach Community Center in Fort Lauderdale's Galt Ocean Mile area was as divided as Congress over the sweeping ... [Published Mar 09 2010 by Chicago Tribune]

Entities: George LeMieux, Health Care, Republican Party (US), Fort Lauderdale, Health Insurance

First Reported Mar 09 2010 - Updated Mar 09 2010 - 1 Documents

Audit Notes: Glades Crusade, Greenspan Deflects, Whatever Happened to...?

United States Sugar had an unusually powerful advocate in Gunster, a West Palm Beach law firm that had represented it since 1990. Gunster’s chairman, George LeMieux, was Governor Crist’s chief of staff when the deal was first conceived. Mr. LeMieux, who ... [Published Mar 09 2010 by Columbia Journalism Review]

Entities: George LeMieux, West Palm Beach (United States), Chief of Staff, Sugar

First Reported Mar 08 2010 - Updated Mar 09 2010 - 2 Documents

What 'insider' LeMieux had to say about Everglades deal

Cast as an "insider" and "former chief of staff to Governor Charlie Crist," George LeMieux delivered the keynote address at a conference sponsored by his law firm, which represented U.S. Sugar in a colossal deal to sell its Everglades land to Florida ... [Published Mar 09 2010 by St. Petersburg Times]

Entities: George LeMieux, Everglades (United States), Insider, Charlie Crist

First Reported Mar 09 2010 - Updated Mar 09 2010 - 1 Documents

LeMieux back at the White House

Less than a week after he visited the White House for a bill signing, U.S. Sen. George LeMieux is headed back tomorrow -- for a discussion on energy policy that will presumably include oil drilling.A White House notification listed the Florida Republican ... [Published Mar 09 2010 by St. Petersburg Times]

Entities: George LeMieux, Everglades (United States), White House, Judgeship

First Reported Mar 08 2010 - Updated Mar 09 2010 - 2 Documents

Amendment favors Puerto Rico in fight over rum excise tax

A lobbying fight over Caribbean rum subsidies could come to a head this week if Sen. George LeMieux (R-Fla.) offers an amendment to jobs legislation that benefits Puerto Rico and rum producers like Bacardi at the expense of the U.S. Virgin Islands and ... [Published Mar 09 2010 by The Hill]

Entities: George LeMieux, Puerto Rico, Taxes, Jim Webb

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Senate passes scaled-back jobs bill [MyDD - Feb 24 2010] The U.S. Senate passed a scaled-back jobs bill today by a 70-28 vote (roll call here). 57 of the 59 Senate Democrats voted for the bill; Ben Nelson of Nebraska voted ...

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