Congress has not, as nothing more pressure on their plate right now, but the suits on Capitol Hill any time to their noses in yet another minute aspect of our personal lives bag found - Lighting . All jokes aside, it was like the old, power-hungry incandescent wouldn 't have to look for a second chance at life. If you 'll remember, was a bill way back passed in 2007 to kill' em off until the year 2012, but tried the Republicans to reverse things, to give Americans a bargain purchase option in the coming years. Achieved despite a 233-193 vote for the repeal earlier this week the necessary super majority wasn 't. Not willing to be left in the dark, relentlessly pushed the matter, they turned it into something other than a change in the late Friday night, have in fact get the oh-so-coveted seal of approval. Translation? GE has to reactivate a production line, STAT.

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