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 Stories About: Environmental Working Group AND Muckraker AND politics AND US House of Representatives
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Magic Carpet Riders
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Ben White |
04 Aug 1999 |
Muckraker |
| Despite a stern tongue lashing from the New York Times editorial page on Monday, the Senate version of the Interior appropriations bill continues to provide a comfy roosting spot for a handful of anti-environmental riders. Some of the offending items got sliced off when the Senate reinstated Rule 16, the sensible old regulation requiring that senators refrain from attaching non-germane legislative items to must-pass spending bills. (Perish the thou ... |
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| Topics: Environmental Working Group, Muckraker, politics, US House of Representatives (all these topics) |
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