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Key Bills Caught In Senate Logjams; Session Marked by Filibusters, Ploys
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June 28, 2008
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The Senate went home yesterday for the Fourth of July holiday to
face voters, having failed repeatedly to address critical economic
issues from skyrocketing gas prices to climate change to the
nation's housing crisis.
Leaders in both parties have vowed to tackle those problems. Yet
the Senate has been unable to move forward even when there is broad
agreement about what to do.
Take the housing rescue bill that collapsed this week: On a test
vote, 83 senators supported provisions intended to halt the steepest
slide in home prices in a generation. Still, the measure stalled,
undone by a dispute over whether to add tax breaks for renewable
energy production, an idea supported by 88 senators.
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