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Strategies & Market Trends : US Inflation and What To Do About It -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ggersh who wrote (583)	9/10/2014 3:14:34 PM
From: John Vosilla	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1504

Dorgan decided not to seek reelection in 2010. Interesting only eight senators opposed repealing it. Only one was a republican, Richard Shelby of Alabama who had been a dem up till 1994..... Dorgan wasn’t entirely alone. Sens. Barbara Boxer, Barbara Mikulski, Richard Shelby, Tom Harkin, Richard Bryan, Russ Feingold and Bernie Sanders also cast nay votes. The late Sen. Paul Wellstone opposed the bill, and warned at the time that Congress was “about to repeal the economic stabilizer without putting any comparable safeguard in its place.” occasionalplanet.org In the House, 155 Democrats and 207 Republicans voted for the measure, while 51 Democrats, 5 Republicans and 1 independent opposed it. Fifteen members did not vote dealbook.nytimes.com