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By a 53-39 vote, Sen. Tom Harkin, an Iowa Democrat, failed in an attempt to restore money cut by the House for those programs, including one that would help poor people buy heating fuel this winter.

But Sen. Ted Stevens, an Alaska Republican, will try to win passage of Harkin's amendment next week by attaching it to an unrelated bill to fund the U.S. military in fiscal 2006.