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Democratic Maine Senate President Justin Alfond says Maine needs a short term plan to jump-start its economy, and a long-term vision of Maine’s economic future. To accomplish that goal, he and House Speaker Mark Eves want to create a Joint Select Committee on Maine’s Workforce and Economic Future.
Panelists, including Republicans and Democrats, would then recommend legislation to create new jobs and build a better economy. “The goal of this is to not produce a fancy report, but to put in specific legislation that helps Maine’s people, places and our businesses grow,” Alfond says.
Alfond says he wants to expand on some of the ideas that were advanced in the last session of the then Republican-dominated Legislature, while also seeking out ideas from the Maine business community.
“We hope to build off of what we learned when we looked at all the regulations of last session, and we look at this as moving Maine’s econopmy forward by putting together this joint select committee,” Alfond says. “So we’re looking forward to getting people’s ideas from across the state together and putting it in this committe and getting to work.”
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