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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush
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To: SeachRE who wrote (88658)12/28/2007 8:06:48 AM
From: tonto  Read Replies (2) of 93284
 
How did a republican bill pass when the democrats are in the majority?
It looks like Congress will give the president an energy bill this Christmas after all. But it's not the gift many lawmakers would have chosen.

On Thursday evening, the Senate, by a vote of 86-8, passed an energy bill that will raise fuel-economy standards by 40% and dramatically boost production of ethanol and other biofuels. But it is merely a shadow of the bill Democrats wanted just last week, which would have required utilities to get 15% of their electricity from renewable power. They also had proposed a nearly $22 billion tax package that would have allowed Congress to extend existing production and investment incentives for wind and solar power, raising money from Big Oil to help offset the spending.

Earlier in the day, the Senate voted not to move debate on the bill forward. But after an afternoon of deal making, Democrats were able to win support for the measure by dropping the tax package, which would have raised taxes on BP (nyse: BP - news - people ), Chevron (nyse: CVX - news - people ), ConocoPhillips (nyse: COP - news - people ), Exxon Mobil (nyse: XOM - news - people ) and Royal Dutch Shell (nyse: RDSA - news - people ). The renewable electricity mandate was omitted after the Senate blocked the bill on a procedural vote last week.
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