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Article: Congress to consider fuel efficiency ratings.(News)(Brief Article)
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- Tire Business
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- September 15, 2003
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Byline: Miles Moore
The U.S. Senate sidestepped a vote on a potentially controversial measure to require fuel efficiency ratings for replacement tires, but the issue could come up again in Congress.
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., sponsored the fuel efficiency measure, one of many amendments that never made it to a vote when the Senate considered a massive energy policy bill July 31, its last day before August recess.
The Schumer amendment became moot when the Senate-rather than considering the energy package before it-decided instead by an 81-14 vote to adopt an energy bill it had passed the year before when the Democrats were the Senate's ...