News Clip May 8, 2009       Lawmakers step up efforts to save plant   (Kenosha News)— Lawmakers on the state and federal levels continued to line up Thursday in opposition to Chrysler’s plan to close its Kenosha Engine Plant. Also Thursday, Feingold joined Sen. Herb Kohl, D-Wis., and Reps. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and Gwen Moore, D-Wis., in urging a Treasury Department official to work with Chrysler to make retooling funding available to the automaker to help keep the Kenosha plant open. The letter to Steven Rattner, chairman of the department’s Automotive Task Force, notes that Congress last fall appropriated $25 billion for a Department of Energy program to provide grants and low-interest loans to U.S. automakers to retool factories to produce fuel-efficient vehicles and components. ...View full article News Clip List