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Published 11/03/2009 by Minneapolis Star Tribune

GOP senators plan boycott of committee votes on climate change, want more economic studies

WASHINGTON - A threatened Republican boycott of a Senate committee's consideration of climate legislation is exposing the sharp partisan divide over a Democratic proposal to combat global warming.

Republicans for the most part plan to stay away from a meeting of the Senate Environment...

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...to vote on a bill "without a full and complete analysis of the likely effects."

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