Under the Grassley-Baucus bill, the solar industry would get a three-year extension for both commercial projects and home owner installations through 2010.
This setback came a week after the announcement of further delays on one of Britain's largest construction projects, the extension of London Underground's Jubilee Line from Westminster to Stratford in east London.
The voters decisively rejected Mr Hayden's green agenda, which included killing such job-generating projects as Dreamwork's new studio and an extension of Los Angeles International Airport.
They include a battle over a proposed Senate extension of the tax credit for gasoline mixed with ethanol and pilot projects in the House bill that would allow states to be certified to conduct environmental reviews of road projects.
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie asked why an extension of Scotland's freedom of information system was being blocked excluding housing associations, PFI projects and some public bodies.
Among them was a one-year extension of the tax credit, with slight modifications that would allow wind-farm developers to claim the credit for projects that begin construction by Jan. 1, 2014.