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Archive Home > 2009 > November > 22 > A slow pace in the Senate, with much left to do

A slow pace in the Senate, with much left to do

By Carl Hulse / The Bulletin
November 22, 2009

WASHINGTON — When Sen. Harry Reid, the Democratic leader, heard a few weeks ago that the House took less than an hour to approve an unemployment bill that had languished for a month in the Senate, aides said he did not know whether to laugh or cry.

In the polarized Senate, even popular bills and....

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