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Times Politics Print E-mail story Most e-mailed Change text size Ideology, Self-Interest Stand in the Way of Political Compromise on Asbestos Claims By Jonathan Peterson, Times Staff Writer March 24, 2006 WASHINGTON — It is a quest that challenges Congress to its very core.

For almost three decades, a political answer to the barrage of claims arising from exposure to cancer-causing asbestos has eluded lawmakers.

Meanwhile, the longest-running legal brawl over a workplace hazard in U.S.

history grinds on with no end in sight.

ADVERTISEMENT In the latest chapter, the Senate last month rejected a plan to create a $140-billion trust fund to compensate asbestos victims.

Compromise has proved elusive because the issue pits Republican al...

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