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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JDN who wrote (685813)	6/16/2005 2:42:42 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Never-the-less, that's the MAIN HOLDUP in the conferees. The House Republicans are pushing a ban on lawsuits against the pollution damage from MTBE leaked into groundwater supplies (& say they won't sign any bill that doesn't have it)... while the Senate Republicans say they won't support any bill that DOES have a get-out-of-court provision for the makers of the polluting additive. (Most of the mid-western Senators always opposed the additive, in favor of ethanol which is produced in their own states.) This is EXACTLY the same holdup they had LAST YEAR with the Bill... with Tom DeLay (supporting the Big Oil makers of the additive from his home territory of Texas) saying 'no bill without law suit protections', and opposed by the mid-western corn growing States, and by the north eastern States who've suffered serious groundwater pollution and have law suits filed against the oil companies.