[CPEO-BIF] 'Brownfields' Bill Stymied in Senate'

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'Brownfields' Bill Stymied in Senate'

By H. JOSEF HEBERT, Associated Press Writer 

WASHINGTON (AP) - GOP presidential hopeful George W. Bush (news - web
sites) has made cleaning up moderately contaminated urban land a top
environmental issue, but a bill to help do that has been blocked for months
in Congress because of opposition from the Senate's top Republican.

At campaign stops and during recent debates, Bush has praised government
efforts to clean up ``brownfields'' and said that as president he would
press Congress to speed up the restoration of these sites, many in
economically depressed inner-city neighborhoods. Democratic rival Al Gore
(news - web sites) has vowed to do the same.

Ironically, a behind-the-scenes ``horse-trade'' between two GOP senators -
one seeking to assure passage of one of his favorite bills, and another out
to protect powerful constituents back home - appears to have undermined
just that kind of legislation in the current Congress.

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