When confronted, he gave a lame excuse about not realizing he was reaching into the case.

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They're "a lame excuse for a clean energy policy, " says Lamar Alexander, the Tennessee Republican and chairman of the Senate Energy Subcommittee.

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But that is a lame excuse: it should be much easier to count bodies than to put a value on diverse sorts of economic output.

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The problem has been that House Speaker John A. Boehner has been stonewalling the establishment of such a committee, using the lame excuse that it will cost money and take a lot of time.

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The world got--excuse my lame phrase--a paradigm shift.

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