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Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Sen. Voinovich praises Obama nuclear reactor plans
U.S. Sen. George Voinovich, R-Ohio, gave a big thumbs up to President Barack Obama’s announcement of a nuclear loan guarantee for the construction and operation of two new nuclear reactors at a plant in Georgia.
The loan guarantees are for about $8 billion and the reactors would be for the first nuclear plant to break ground on U.S. soil in nearly three decades, Voinovich’s office said on Tuesday, Feb. 16.
“Although loan guarantees alone will not sustain the nuclear renaissance, I believe this is an essential step,” Voinovich said in a press release. “My colleagues and I created this loan guarantee program back in 2005 to promote clean, advanced energy sources,” Voinovich said in a press release.
“….Our country needs nuclear power - the jobs, the energy security and the environmental benefits it provides.”
Voinovich said he looked forward to “hearing more about what President Obama will do for nuclear power and jobs.”
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Stimulus anniversary sparks contrasting reactions
Cry or rejoice?
That’s the question as the nation on Wednesday, Feb. 17, gets ready to observe the first anniversary of the $787 billion federal stimulus plan pushed through Congress by Democratic President Barack Obama.
Republicans are blasting the plan. An example of the blasting came from the National Republican Congressional Committee in press releases sent to Ohio and other states.
“It’s been one year since the trillion-dollar stimulus bill was signed into law, and we’re still seeing unemployment at record levels,” Tory Mazzola, NRCC spokesman, said in a press release.
The Center for Community Solutions, a Cleveland-based research group supportive of the stimulus, had a different take. As stimulus dollars started to flow, job losses began to slow down, the group said in a release.
“Ohio, as a large state and one with unemployment rates that have been running above the national average, has seen greater benefit from the Recovery Act than most others,” Emily Campbell, policy and planning associate with the center, said in the release.
For the record, Ohio unemployment was at 9.5 percent in February 2009 and rose to 10.9 percent in December 2009, the last month for which federal figures are available. Also, the state lost 107,800 jobs from February- December, 2009, according to federal data.
