Liberal Democrat MSP Jeremy Purvis's amendment regretted that the Scottish government had still not published detailed spending plans beyond 2011-12 but fell with 31 votes backing it and 86 against.

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She said it announced a waste review last summer that still had not been published and added the Conservatives had abandoned any hope of achieving a "zero waste" Britain.

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Tina Kreisher, an Interior Department spokeswoman, could not confirm whether the rule would be published before the deadline, saying only that the White House was still reviewing it.

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