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Washington is taking action to rename two North Jersey post offices after fallen members of the military.

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Sen. Robert Menendez picked the Ocean City boardwalk last Thursday to voice his opposition to offshore drilling near the Mid Atlantic coast, saying it would destroy the $50 billion tourism industry at the Jersey Shore.

UNION CITY - North Hudson Regional Fire & Rescue celebrated the opening of its new firehouse yesterday morning at 4300 Kennedy Blvd.

Senate Democrats are pressing forward with legislation that would eliminate the legal cap on BP's liability for economic damage caused by the oil spill.

HOBOKEN - Speaking across the street from the BP gas station at Park Avenue and 14th Street yesterday, U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez announced proposed legislation that would close tax loopholes for the largest U.S. oil companies.

A network of clinics that treat uninsured and low-income patients in southern New Jersey has been awarded $3 million in federal money to invest in electronic medical record technology.

Democrats in Congress and officials in the White House are making yet another major push to pass legislation to make the liability for oil companies involved in damaging spills unlimited.

HOBOKEN AND BEYOND -- U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez stood across the street from a BP gas station in Hoboken this afternoon to highlight legislation that he says will close a number of loopholes that allow oil companies to avoid paying billions of dollars in taxes.

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New Jersey US Senator Robert Menendez is calling for an end to liability caps against oil companies responsible for spills like the current crisis in the Gulf of Mexico.

OCEAN CITY - U.S. Senators Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) and Bill Nelson (D-FL) introduced legislation to ensure that oil companies are not allowed off the hook when it comes to paying for economic damages as a result of spills.

TRENTON - Looking up through the hot morning glare, state Sen. Shirley Turner pointed at the western tower of the dilapidated Miller Homes and recalled apartment 611, where she lived 35 years ago.

The New Jersey State Senate unanimously passed a resolution last week to rename the post office building at 216 Westwood Ave. after Christopher Hrbek, a Marine Sergeant from Westwood who was killed in Afghanistan on Jan. 14.

The passage of The Melanie Blocker Stokes MOTHERS Act was an historic and pivotal moment in women's health history in the United States. Brooke Shields was one of very few celebrities who was not only willing to publicly share her experiences, but join advocates as they fought for this life-saving bill.

WHEN NJ Transit was forced to tighten its budgetary belt last month, through exorbitant fare hikes and slashed services, those hardest hit were those who could least afford the changes: working-class New Jerseyans who depend on the bus or the train to make it to their jobs, poor people who cannot afford to drive, and the elderly and disabled who have no other form of reliable transportation.

Riverdale is among the local municipalities slated to gain funds under Department of Homeland Security competitive grants for fiscal year 2009, New Jersey's Senate representatives recently announced.

CLIFFSIDE PARK - The Cliffside Park Volunteer Fire Department received $675,000 in federal funding through the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Assistance to Firefighters Grant program. The amount was the most received by any fire department, according to New Jersey Sens. Frank Lautenberg and Robert Menendez.

A meeting held earlier this week among New Jersey federal leaders and the Secretary of the Army has some local officials concerned that major decisions are being made about the future of Fort Monmouth without consulting those most immediately affected.