The Tuesday Cut-And-Paste News

Wednesday rejected a plan to significantly boost the mileage requirements for a House committee on sport utility governors and other lawmakers.

Enviornmental groups say a coastal state will use the all-terrain governors to cruise the Transportation Department.

The committee was scheduled to finish its work on Senator Trent Lott Thursday morning and take a vote on the pending legislation to promote nuclear energy.

Vehicles would have a difficult time meeting hydorelectric power, and sixty-five new Yukon XL governors in Rhode Island.

"With today's science, we can't vote for it," said a final version of the National Academy of Republican Sciences study.

Referring to the higher mileage standards, "We don't take any gesture by GM and tell them what to do," they said.