It is an ancient-looking room, with a gleaming floor buffed by many feet for many years, its low willow-branch ceiling and beams brightly painted and hung with banners, the walls depicting floating Buddhas and snarling, dark-faced demons.

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While that program is riddled with problems, ranging from phony reporting to substandard construction, it appears to have put a floor under the real-estate market, analysts say.

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It opened in 1901 in a single small building and now is a complex of structures with 28 acres of floor space.

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Once that process is complete, floor debate on the combined bill can start, giving lawmakers the chance to fatten it up with amendments before a final vote.

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Honestly, it is unusual for the market to test a floor four separate times without breaking it, but we have avoided trading with that sort of bias.

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