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Confirmation Meeting
Thomas F. O'Mara
March 23, 2011
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ISSUE:
- Environment
CONFIRMATION PROCESS--Senator O'Mara questions Joe Martens, Governor Andrew Cuomo's nominee to head the state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), at a meeting of the Senate Environmental Conservation Committee in early March. The full Senate confirmed Mr. Martens as DEC's new commissioner on March 9th.
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