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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 ...
House Dems to Let Drilling Ban Expire
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailySources in the House of Representatives are reporting that House Democrats are set to allow the Congressional ban on offshore drilling expire at the end of the month when the fiscal year ends. If the report turns out to be accurate, it would represent an epic political victory for Republicans and underscore just how seriously the American people's demand for increased development of American energy sources shook Democrats' expectations for the fall elections. A House staffer said in an e-mail that House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D-WI) is telling reporters that Democrats on ...
House Passes Limited Drilling Bill
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyDemocrats in the House passed an energy bill today that will provide limited drilling expansion off small areas of the U.S. coast. The bill will open up drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf off the coasts of four states: Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, and the eastern Gulf of Mexico off Florida. But drilling would be confined to an area no closer than 50 miles to the coast and no further than 100 miles. The bill also continues prohibitions on increased exploration in Alaska's North Slope, and the interior Mountain West. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) praised the ...
In Reversal, Dems to Allow Drilling Vote
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyHouse Democrats said Wednesday that they were open to a vote on a Republican oil drilling measure, reversing their stand against the legislation. Republicans called that a victory in their summer-long efforts to get the House to vote on increased domestic production of oil as a means of lowering gasoline prices. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi steadfastly refused to bring up the Republicans' American Energy Act throughout June and July. But after an August recess in which many Republicans remained in Washington holding informal sessions on the House floor highlighting what they called Democrats' ...
Pelosi Backs Down on Drilling Vote
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyAfter weeks of refusing to allow a vote in the House of Representatives on drilling for new domestic sources of oil, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) indicated today that she may indeed finally allow a vote on the measure. Republicans have been holed up in the House chamber, conducting a protest session of the House and calling on Pelosi to call the House back into session to vote on drilling. Some Democrats have also been signaling that they would like an opportunity to vote on drilling as well. Faced with growing pressure from the right and the center on an issue supported by more than 70% ...
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 ...
Obama Energy Policy Contains Another Shift
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailySen. Barack Obama announced his energy policy today in a speech in Lansing, MI. Early reports on the speech revealed that Obama was going to call for an energy rebate to American families to be paid for by a windfall profits tax on American oil companies. He was also expected to discuss his new-found support for limited offshore drilling as a part of a broader energy bill containing incentives for alternative fuels. But there was another, unexpected, policy shift in Sen. Obama's speech: a call for tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.Obama proposed releasing 70 million barrels of light ...
Obama to Unveil New Energy Plan
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailySen. Barack Obama, celebrating his 47th birthday today, will give his campaign a present today in Lansing, MI, when he announces a new energy plan. The plan, dubbed "New Energy for America" will have as its centerpiece an energy rebate to American families to be paid for by a windfall profits tax on American oil companies. Obama also recently changed his position on offshore drilling, saying that he would now be open to expanding oil production at home as part of a package with incentives for alternative fuels. Obama had as recently as two weeks ago been opposed to increased drilling.Both 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 ...
GOP Takes Over House Floor in Drilling Protest
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe House officially adjourned for the five-week August recess today, but that did not stop Republicans from making their point about opening up oil drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf. The House GOP had been pressuring Democratic leaders to hold a vote on offshore drilling before the recess, and with the help of 17 Democrat members came within one vote of defeating the motion to adjourn. Today, Republicans took their protests directly to the floor of the House, refusing to leave the chamber after it adjourned, and continuing to make their speeches.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) ...
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