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NORA extension still stuck in iffy energy bill.(The Insider)(National Oilheat Research Alliance...

A rider that would "re-up" the National Oilheat Research Alliance is still included in the controversial, and twice-postponed, energy policy reform bill. An omnibus bill, it will be recalled, died on the Senate floor in the final days of the last Congress.

Energy & Natural Resources Committee chairman Pete Domenici, R, N.M., has introduced a scaled-down version that, like the original version of two years ago, will bypass the committee structure and be sent directly to the floor. Both par

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