Abstract
Earlier this month the House Energy & Commerce Committee moved with unexpected alacrity and voted out a clean air bill just days after the full Senate had approved its version. Floor action on the committee's bill is expected in early May. Since neither body had been able to accomplish this feat in the past 13 years (the last time the law was revised), hopes are now high that clean air legislation will become law ' this year. This all depends, of course, on the outcome of the House-Senate conference committee. The conference committee is expected to go to work early this summer. Its debate is likely to be contentious and drawn out. The House panel was able to act as quickly as it did because its two chief adversaries—full committee chairman John D. Dingell (D.-Mich.) and health subcommittee chairman Henry A. Waxman (D.-Calif.)—and their allies were able to work out compromises. First a deal was ...
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