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The bill creating the Housing Trust Fund passed 264 to 148 -- 26 votes short of the maximum two-thirds majority needed to override a veto but with 23 members absent and uncounted.
Housing is not a sexy issue for presidents or presidential candidates. The House action drew almost no newspaper coverage. But housing is as important to people as food and drink -- and life itself. Will the Senate act? Will the president recant? I will keep reporting this story.
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In my Oct. 14 column, I attributed to the Congressional Budget Office the estimate that the Wyden-Bennett health-care plan, if enacted, would save the country $336 billion over the next 10 years. The estimate actually came from the Lewin Group, a private consulting firm. The CBO has not scored the legislation.
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