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Enron Corp. has eliminated the last vestiges of its one-timehigh-profile venture into California’s residential electricitymarket by pulling out of its deal with the resort city of PalmSprings. Enron was the energy service provider for a citygovernment-established aggregation business, which had about 2,000mostly residential customers lured away from the local monopolyprovider, Southern California Edison.

Enron Corp. has eliminated the last vestiges of its one-timehigh-profile venture into California’s residential electricitymarket by pulling out of its deal with the resort city of PalmSprings. Enron was the energy service provider for a citygovernment-established aggregation business, which had about 2,000mostly residential customers lured away from the local monopolyprovider, Southern California Edison.

The House Appropriations Committee Tuesday eliminated fiscalyear 1999 funding for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program(LIHEAP). Last month, the House Appropriations subcommittee onLabor, Health and Human Services and Education zeroed out fundingfor LIHEAP despite the Clinton administration’s request for morethan $1 billion in fiscal year 1999 funding. Tuesday’s actionclears the bill for consideration by the entire House ofRepresentatives.