The Labour peer alleged "serious flaws" in the LGBCE's process and claimed the changes contravene the requirements of the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009.
The court heard Mr Pickles decided in July to revoke the regional strategies, which include house-building targets, introduced under the 2009 Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act.
Construction Workplace Misclassification Act establishes rigid criteria for differentiating independent contractors from employees in the construction industry.
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That's part of the reason that Chuck is here today -- he's the president of a construction company in Pennsylvania, and the Recovery Act will fund about a third of the work his paving company will do this year.
So the American Jobs Act will lead to new jobs for construction workers, jobs for teachers, jobs for veterans, jobs for young people, jobs the unemployed.
The American Jobs Act includes an immediate investment in employing construction workers to restore 150 miles of runway at American airports and put in place a next-generation air-traffic control system to reduce travel time and delays.
So this is what the American Jobs Act is all about: New jobs for construction workers and teachers, veterans, young people, long-term unemployed.
The Recovery Act has made possible over 12, 500 transportation construction projects, from rebuilding highways to improving our airports.
The clean-up process might be hindered by pro-union rules such as the Davis-Bacon Act, which increases the cost of federally funded construction projects.
Specific members that addressed some of the weaknesses in our economy -- the need to grow jobs within the infrastructure, within the construction business -- if the Congress had passed the American Jobs Act, those components that they refused to pass -- thousands, tens of thousands of people would be -- more people would be at work in the construction industry.
And that only elucidates the need to take action to put those construction workers back to work, hence the aspect of the American Jobs Act that specifically addressed that weakness in our economy.
The Sierra Club and Defenders of Wildlife have since appealed the case directly to the Supreme Court, because the REAL ID Act -- again, in the interest of expediting border fence construction -- eliminated the option of appealing district court decisions on the DHS waiver to any of the federal appellate courts, making direct appeal to the Supreme Court the only legal option left.
Recovery Act transportation expenditures by state are positively correlated with private employment growth in heavy construction.
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Land acquisition, often a rub in India, was sped under a national act for public projects and in this case even green lobbies gave their blessing for construction.
And it's one of 8, 000 highway projects that have been approved under the Recovery Act across this country -- nearly 5, 000 of which are already under construction.
The investments we made under the Recovery Act has helped, but obviously there's a lot more work to do to put construction workers and millions of other Americans who are ready and eager to help rebuild America and move our recovery forward back on the job again.
Shrouded under the ever- expanding blanket of the Clean Air Act, it is being applied to validate an unprecedented regulatory takeover of carbon-emitting energy and construction industry permitting.
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