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Write to Your U.S. Senators Today: Tell Them Patents Matter 

The leaders we elect in 2010 will make decisions impacting Maryland companies' ability to compete and grow in the global marketplace. This affects each of us - our jobs, our economy and our families' future.

Candidates are talking about jobs, taxes, workforce development, energy and the environment. You need to know how these issues impact the prosperity of every Maryland worker and their families.

Check out the featured Action Alert: Tell U.S. Senators Patents Matter
The best way to strengthen our economy and create new jobs is to continue America’s leadership in innovation and invention. Write to your U.S. Senators today and tell them that patents matter! Ask them to co-sponsor the Managers’ Amendment to S. 515, The Patent Reform Act, and support bringing it to the floor for consideration. 

Action Alert!
Write to Congress today about the EPA's threat to American jobs

Recently, EPA announced its intent to impose new limits on the level of dioxin in soil.  Despite the fact that Americans’ exposure to dioxin has declined more than 90% over the last 20 years and EPA has failed to provide any new science suggesting that this is a public health priority, EPA is racing the clock to impose over-the-top regulations and plans to finalize these new standards by the end of June. 

What the EPA plans to do on dioxin regulations and countless Superfund sites around the country threatens many municipalities with an unfunded mandate that we just cannot afford.

Write to Congress today! Ask them to discourage EPA from taking further action on dioxin soil regulations until the EPA addresses the concerns of the National Academy of Sciences and publishes its final regulations on the reassessment of health effects. 

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