Senate energy bill draws widespread criticism (Reuters)

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., center, with Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., left, and Director of the White House office of Energy and Climate Change Policy Carol Browner, talk to the media on Capitol Hill in Washington Thursday, July 22, 2010. Senate Democrats abandoned plans to pass an energy bill that caps emissions of carbon dioxide, saying Republicans refuse to support the measure.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)Reuters - Republicans and some moderate Democrats in the Senate on Wednesday began picking apart a new energy bill that they complained goes too far in holding oil companies responsible for accidents like the massive Gulf of Mexico spill.


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