New York's two U.S. senators, Democrats Hillary Rodham Clinton and Charles Schumer, are blocking the planned transfer of 260 engineering jobs to Monroeville and pressing Bechtel Plant Machinery Inc. to keep the positions in Schenectady, N.Y. Bechtel agreed to hold off for 60 days -- a period that expires in early February. 2007. "We are holding good to our word," Bechtel spokesman Mike Kidder said yesterday. Both units at one point were part of Westinghouse Electric's old Pittsburgh-area conglomerate. Bechtel acquired the units from CBS Corp in 1999.
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