Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, suggested that lawmakers need to go back to the drawing board and enact laws that put tighter controls on the activities of hedge funds.

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The senators said they welcomed a recent overture made by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry Hyde (R-Illinois) on a possible compromise, but said that it did not go far enough.

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So you might think that Perry would favor gold and even want to go back to the gold standard as fellow Texas politician, Ron Paul (R-Texas), does.

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"You have to wonder whether the bill that we will go to shortly is a serious exercise, " said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, shortly before the vote, as he a noted a procedural technicality could scuttle the bill even if the Senate did approve it.

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Unless you're burning from downloaded (perhaps pirated) songs, you'll have to go through the process of transforming CD song files into MP3s and then burning them onto CD-R or CD-RW disks.

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