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Gulf Oil Spill Spurs Calif. Gov. Schwarzenegger to Dump Drilling Plan
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyCalifornia Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said he no longer supports a plan for new offshore oil drilling along the California coast, after seeing the impact of the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Schwarzenegger, whose administration as recently as last week defended the proposed drilling project near Tranquillon Ridge off Santa Barbara County, said images of the oil slick in the gulf changed his mind, The San Francisco Chronicle reported. "All of you have seen, when you turn on the television, the devastation in the gulf, and I'm sure that they also were assured that it was safe to ...
Offshore Drilling Ban Expires
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyTwenty-seven years after it was first established, he Congressional ban on offshore drilling officially and quietly expired today. The ban was not a prohibition on drilling per se. Rather, it was a ban on appropriating money for the Interior Department to process of new drilling leases. With the beginning of the new fiscal year, that prohibition will end, once Congress passes a budget resolution that restores the funding. After years of opposition to increasing domestic supplies of energy, a full year of fighting House Republicans on the issue, and a summer of defending itself against a vocal ...
Sarah Palin 'Energy Expert'
By David Knowles - Politics DailyJohn McCain likes to lavish Sarah Palin with high praise. OK, it's a running-mate thing. Obama does it with Biden, too. But over the course of the last few weeks, the Arizona Senator, in his bid to introduce the country to Palin, has done his best to portray her as a reformer, a maverick, an enemy of earmarks, a singularly ethical person, and on and on. As each one of McCain's assertions has been shown to be less than credible, Palin's unfavorable ratings have steadily gone south. Truly, an unkonwn commodity is more valuable than one we have the opportunity to evaluate.But of all the hyperbole ...
WH Won't Call Special Session of Congress
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe White House announced today that the president will not exercise his Article II Section 3 power to reconvene the House for a special session to debate oil drilling. Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) and several of his GOP House colleagues sent a letter to the president last week asking him to call the House back if it adjourned without a vote on offshore oil production. Republican House members have been holding protest sessions on the House floor since majority Democrats recessed for the five-week August break last Friday.In declining to call a special session, the White House stressed that the ...
House GOP to Resume Drilling Protest
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyFlush with success and armed with favorable press coverage of Friday's House floor protest by Republican lawmakers, Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) announced today that Republicans will take to the floor again on Monday to continue pressing Democrats for a vote on offshore drilling. In a memo to colleagues prepared by Boehner and House Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-MO), the Republican leadership urged lawmakers to come back to Washington for the demonstration, or spread the word in their districts.The consequences of continued congressional inaction on gas prices are unacceptable. We've ...
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