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Class action bill stalls in Senate; Reform's chances slim after close vote.(News)
Business Insurance, July, 2004 by Hofmann, Mark A.
Byline: MARK A. HOFMANN WASHINGTON-The drive for class action reform legislation appears dead in the current Congress. A motion to invoke cloture-thus limiting debate and amendments-on the Class Action Fairness Act failed in the Senate Thursday evening by a largely party-line vote of 44 to 43, 16 votes shy of the minimum 60 required to head off any filibusters.
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., called the cloture vote in an effort to block an expected torrent of nongermane amendments on such issues as raising the minimum wage and controlling greenhouse gas emissions. But Sen. Frist's maneuver angered many Democratic supporters of the class action bill, such as Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., who voted against limiting debate on S. 2062. Rather than...
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