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Good, bipartisan ideas that meaningfully improve the lives of millions of Americans sometimes make it through the otherwise partisanship-plagued, soul-sapping, progress-thwarting machine called the United States Congress. This time, Republicans and Democrats have struck a $78 billion tax agreement that expands refundable child tax credits to help families with lower incomes. Here’s hoping that it gets a serious hearing in the U.S. House, where many right-wing Republicans are eager to kill it in the crib and it’s looking good, having passed the Ways and Means Committee on Friday with a vote of …