Senate Vote on Stimulus Expected Tuesday

Published February 09, 2009 @ 09:03PM PT

The economic stimulus bill, including spending for green href="http://globalwarming.change.org/blog/view/senate_stimulus-green_recovery_part_1_infrastructure">infrastructure, energy, mass transit and science projects, is almost through the Senate (which invoked cloture tonight on a vote of 61-39, and is expected to pass the bill tomorrow).

It's been trimmed of some provisions, and others added (including a Senate-authored gift to FutureGen, the coal-fired power plant carbon sequestration experiment. If the House and Senate can resolve their different versions of the bill in short order, it could be on President Obama's desk before the end of the week.

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