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Quick success for nuke deal bill in Senate panel
Washington, June 29 (PTI) It took less than two hours for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today to endorse a bill by an overwhelming 16 to 2 vote to implement the historic Indo-US nuclear deal, unlike its House counterpart which debated it for four hours, as the panel had far fewer amendments to address.
Even before the hearing began, senior staffers said the debate and vote in the 18-member Senate Committee was going to be relatively quicker than the 50-member House committee, which had passed its version of the draft bill...
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