U.S. House Tries to Appeal to Coal-State Voters With Final Bill
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For Republicans in the U.S. House, the math is simple: Keep the coal seats, stay in power.
The very last piece of legislation the House voted on yesterday before leaving for the campaign trail is called the Stop the War on Coal Act of 2012. It’s a combination of five bills, four of which the House has passed in one form or another. All four have have gone nowhere in the Senate.