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  correction

  The text is there:
  http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c110:1:./temp/~c110 ...

  And I guess the statement is not false. Neither is this one:
  Republicans have blockeed energy bills that don't include a death penalty for jay walking.

  Before someone else nails me.On New House bill combines drilling with tax extensions for renewables posted 1 year, 3 months ago 6 Responses

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  Bad Bill

  The following comment from the article is blatantly false:
  'The bill also includes a five-year extension of tax credits for renewable energy and energy efficiency. These tax extensions have passed repeatedly in the House, but they keep getting held up in the Senate where Republicans have blocked energy bills that don't include more drilling'.
  Please tell us about HR 5984 which passed the Senate as S 2821 by a margin of 88 - 8. This Bill only concerned extending the tax credits and contains none of the pork barelling of the compromise bill.
  HR 5984 goes much further in that it removes the existing cap on residential tax credits so consumers get as much as the corporations. The corporations still get the accelerated depreciation but this Bill was much more consumer friendly than any Bill originating in the House.

  Please tell us why the Leadership refused to submit HR 5984 to a vote in the House instead of repeating their propaganda.

  I will encourage my Congressman to vote against this compromise. I could not find the text of the Bill on Thomas.On New House bill combines drilling with tax extensions for renewables posted 1 year, 3 months ago 6 Responses