Broad Energy Bill Stalls in Senate
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After Republicans blocked the bill, Senator Harry Reid said he would remove controversial parts of the measure.
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An energy bill requiring greater fuel efficiency in US cars and trucks has been passed by the Senate.
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The US Senate's Republican leader blamed obstruction by opposition Democrats for a delay in passing a US-India nuclear energy deal, which has now been put off until after the November midterm elections.
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A bipartisan immigration bill narrowly survived a potentially fatal challenge on Wednesday when the Senate turned back a Republican bid to limit the illegal immigrants who could gain lawful status.
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A measure that would make it easier  to sue online file-trading networks like Kazaa and Morpheus  failed to advance in the Senate on Thursday because lawmakers  said there was too much opposition.
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By Mick Hinton, Tulsa World, Okla.  Feb. 13--OKLAHOMA CITY -- A bill that would curb the power of the attorney general to sue poultry companies was stalled in a House subcommittee on Monday.   Rep.
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The US Senate late Thursday passed a wide-ranging energy bill, a key priority of majority Democrats, which raised average auto fuel efficiency standards by 10 miles per gallon over 10 years.
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The Senate yesterday rejected two additions to an energy bill that would have pumped billions of federal dollars into efforts to ramp up production of a coal-based fuel for cars and trucks, which proponents had called an important alternative to petroleum.
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The drive to pass a $136 billion corporate tax bill hit a roadblock in the Senate on Friday when lawmakers upset about tobacco regulation, new overtime rules and combat pay employed delaying tactics to keep the measure from coming up for a vote.
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A sweeping corporate tax bill that would dole out nearly $140 billion in business breaks over the next decade was unexpectedly delayed in the Senate on Sunday over its failure
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The authors of a comprehensive immigration bill said today that they would try to resuscitate the measure, which stalled Thursday.
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Politics continue to complicate energy policy.
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US senators fail to proceed to an early vote on a landmark immigration bill, in effect scuppering the measure.
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Democratic leaders anticipated a close vote as the Senate prepared to consider an energy bill that supporters say will mark a new direction and move the country away from gas-guzzling cars and toward greater reliance on nonfossil fuels.
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GREENER VEHICLES: The Senate passed a trimmed-back energy bill Thursday that would bring higher-gas mileage cars and SUVs into showrooms in the coming decade and fill their tanks with ethanol.
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Allies of the U.S. auto industry stepped up a campaign yesterday to soften strict vehicle fuel-efficiency mandates in proposed energy legislation before the Senate, even as momentum for the tougher measures continued to build.
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Senate leaders are planning to introduce a slimmed-down package of energy legislation, eliminating a minimum requirement for utilities' use of renewable resources but only slightly altering the tax provisions that have drawn fire from congressional Republicans and the White House.