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Ideology, Self-Interest Stand in the Way of Political Compromise on Asbestos Claims - Los Angeles Times
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Ideology, Self-Interest Stand in the Way of Political Compromise on Asbestos Claims
By Jonathan Peterson, Times Staff Writer
March 24, 2006
WASHINGTON — It is a quest that challenges Congress to its very core.
For almost three decades, a political answer to the barrage of claims arising from exposure to cancer-causing asbestos has eluded lawmakers.
Meanwhile, the longest-running legal brawl over a workplace hazard in U.S.
history grinds on with no end in sight.
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In the latest chapter, the Senate last month rejected a plan to create a $140-billion trust fund to compensate asbestos victims.
Compromise has proved elusive because the issue pits Republican al...
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