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AEM Leader: Investment Equals Jobs
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Crews excavate underneath the bridge to widen the lane.
gage and lifestyle. If the slowdown continues, not only will his nightly tossing and turning get worse, but he may also have a full-blown nervous breakdown. Jim is fortunate to have a neighbor, Ken, who helps small business owners lead better lives by running better businesses. Since his business had gone so well for the past 10 years,
Speaking at a press conference following an invitation-only meeting of key U.S. senators, Dennis Slater, president of the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM), forcibly relayed the direct connection between infrastructure investment and job creation for the construction industry and entire manufacturing sector. The meeting and conference were held to highlight the importance of infrastructure investment to putting Americans back to work. Slater was selected to attend as the sole representative of the manufacturing sector, in recognition of AEM’s leadership role in support of critical infrastructure investment and the Start Us Up USA campaign, which advocates timely passage of multi-year transportation legislation. AEM also is active in advocating for adequate water infrastructure investment. “The single best way to bring back hundreds of thousands of good-paying, sustainable manufacturing jobs in the U.S. is to pass major long-term investments in our critical national infrastructure,” Slater noted. Senators at the meeting are working on a new “jobs creation” package of legislation, and they recognize that a central piece of that effort will be rebuilding America’s infrastructure to create jobs, grow the economy and maintain and improve our nation’s safety, environment and international competitiveness, Slater noted. The meeting in the U.S. Senate was cochaired by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV); Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), chair of the Senate Democratic Steering and Outreach Committee; and Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), chair of the Transportation Appropriations Subcommittee. In addition, 19 Senators attended, including — in addition to Reid, Stabenow and Murray — Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, which has jurisdiction over the federal surface transportation and
see SURVIVAL page 12
see AEM page 10
AED Holds Annual Convention, CONDEX…14
Major San Ysidro Port of Entry Work Under Way…39
Leftover T-REX Funds Improve PeskyDenverI-25 Interchange By Rebecca Ragain CEG CORRESPONDENT
By June drivers traveling through the southern Denver metropolitan area, near the suburb of Centennial, will enjoy the results of improvements to one of the area’s peskier interchanges. The intersection at Interstate 25 and East Arapahoe Road, a major east-west commuter Bidders Flock to Vaughn Sale Amid Nasty Weather…60
Table of Contents ........4 Excavators & Attachments Section ................15-30 Business Calendar ....34
By Thomas Houck
Parts Section ............38 Paving Section......45-53
Jim is a small business owner who’s been watching the economy evaporate in front of his eyes. Stress isn’t the word to explain how he feels. With his wife staying at home to raise their youngest child, his business bears the entire financial burden of funding their mort-
Advertisers Index ......62
see DENVER page 34
Ten Survival Strategies During a Stressful Economy SPECIAL TO CEG
Auction Section 57-61,63
route, has grown busier and busier over the years. In a move to increase capacity, the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) is adding an additional through lane in each direction to Arapahoe Road where it passes underneath I-25. “This is basically a stopgap job to get us three lanes until we can get enough money to re-do that whole bridge,” stated Ed Bullard, project engi-