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The House passed by voice vote a bill to extend by one month the deadline to finish satellite-TV reauthorization. The bill was introduced Tuesday by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Sander Levin, D-Mich., and also includes temporary extensions for…
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other expiring items. It was voted on under suspension of the rules, which meant it needed a two-thirds majority to pass. The bill was co-sponsored by House Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., and Reps. George Miller, D-Calif., and James Oberstar, D-Minn. The Senate approved a five-year reauthorization as part of a jobs bill last week (CD March 11 p5). That bill awaits a House vote, but the chamber doesn’t plan to consider it until after it finishes work on health care reform, said a Democratic aide.