Senate Majority Leader Reid might try again this week to bring up a stalled package of renewable energy tax incentives and other tax "extenders" such as the research and development credit, state and local sales tax deduction and numerous other popular provisions.
The House passed its version in May, but twice Senate Republicans have blocked progress, arguing that its revenue-raising offsets should be dropped.
Sources said unless Democrats add enough sweeteners to the bill this time around, it is likely to meet the same fate as the two previous efforts, despite furious lobbying by the business community.
Some industry officials fear the package could stall until the end of the year or lapse altogether if the stalemate continues.
Lobbyists are in the uncomfortable position of being used as surrogates by both Democratic and Republican leaders to try to get the other side to bend.
"We're caught in the middle of this, and they're all just talking past each other," one industry source said.
House Democratic leaders have indicated they are willing to let the business tax cuts expire rather than pass extensions without offsets, which some fear is becoming a more realistic possibility.
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