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Domenici awaits House action on his final legacy

U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici was packing his bags for New Mexico this morning, while still fielding calls from House leaders requesting help to persuade skeptics of the Senate’s economic bailout package. “They’re still calling around, so it makes me wonder,” Domenici said of House leaders in an interview with the New Mexico Independent today. “I thought they had it taken care of.”

Domenici’s mental health parity legislation is part of bailout bill

When the U.S. Senate votes this evening on a $700 billion bailout plan aimed at boosting the struggling economy, it will also consider mental health parity legislation that Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., and others have pushed for years.