Lapsed Tax Breaks Get New Life as Panel Votes to Extend
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U.S. senators voted to revive more than 50 lapsed tax breaks, working across party lines to back a measure that benefits wind energy, multinational corporations and motor sports tracks.
Even as they lamented their inability to set permanent tax policy, the Senate Finance Committee yesterday agreed to extend through 2015 the more than $86 billion in tax breaks.