House Again Passes GOP Energy Measures (washingtonpost.com): "The House voted 244 to 178 to approve the same GOP-drafted energy policy that it sent to the Senate last fall, only to see it languish. A key sticking point is the House provision that would grant liability protection to makers of MTBE, a gasoline additive that has contaminated some groundwater and is thought to cause cancer.
Senate Minority Leader Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.) said a bipartisan group of senators will continue to block the House measure because of the MTBE provision. House leaders, he said, 'continue to hold compromise hostage to ideology.' "
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