May 20th, 2009 - Washington Post
The House Energy and Commerce Committee has just reconvened for another long evening, having spent the day debating changes to mammoth climate-change legislation, still without reaching the bill's halfway point.
On its third day of debate on the bill, the committee had voted on 17 amendments by 6 p.m. They approved a provision to get annual reporting on China and India's efforts to curb emissions, and set a national goal for increasing energy efficiency by 2012.
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