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This week's featured story comes from Reuters.
House approves oil spill reform bill
By Tom Doggett and Richard Cowan
WASHINGTON | Fri Jul 30, 2010 7:16pm EDT
The House of Representatives on Friday approved the toughest reforms ever to offshore energy drilling practices, as Democrats narrowly pushed through an election-year response to BP's massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Passing the bill as the House leaves for its six-week recess gives lawmakers the opportunity to return home boasting they reined in Big Oil and held BP responsible for the worst offshore oil disaster in U.S. history.
The vote was 209-193 on the bill supported by President Barack Obama.
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