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Government Affairs Committee
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On March 1, 2011, ASCE Met Section members and others in the New York City engineering community were treated to a discussion of government involvement and advocacy, its importance to the civil engineering profession and the activities that the National organization has been pursuing on our member's behalf. Mr. Pallasch, who is the Managing Director for ASCE National's Government Relations and Infrastructure Initiatives, and leads ASCE's lobbying efforts, spoke for over an hour and answered questions on a wide range of topics that included:
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