[Jonty30]

Give Soros a share of the Arctic drilling. It’ll be opened up first thing tomorrow.

[KansasGirl]

[ Two other Democrats, Sens. Claire McCaskill of Missouri and Joe Manchin of West Virginia, also voted yes. All but seven Republicans _ Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine, Jim DeMint of South Carolina, Marco Rubio of Florida, Bob Corker of Tennessee, Mike Lee of Utah and Scott Brown of Massachusetts _ voted in favor of the amendment. ]

DeMint voted no?! WTF! Rubio? Geesh!

[Libloather]

Heard the other day that 85% of the US is off limits to drilling. Sure explains a lot.

[muawiyah]

$9.00 per gallon gasoline will see this same crowd chasing each other down the street with pitchforks.

[stylin19a]

amazing headline...it was an amendment a transportation bill.

[kabar]

Two other Democrats, Sens. Claire McCaskill of Missouri and Joe Manchin of West Virginia, also voted yes. All but seven Republicans _ Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine, Jim DeMint of South Carolina, Marco Rubio of Florida, Bob Corker of Tennessee, Mike Lee of Utah and Scott Brown of Massachusetts _ voted in favor of the amendment

[Bender2]

Re: All but seven Republicans _ Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine, Jim DeMint of South Carolina, Marco Rubio of Florida, Bob Corker of Tennessee, Mike Lee of Utah and Scott Brown of Massachusetts _ voted in favor of the amendment.

I can understand that the RINOS Snowe & Collins voting "no" and kind'a Scott Brown of Taxachusetts... but the others I don't quiet have a handle on their "no" votes--

[LaybackLenny]

OK, I’ll give the “Nay” vote to Rubio...I know FL’s sensitive to the drilling. But what’s with DeMint voting with Maine’s “Boobsy Twins” against this?

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Statists will never agree to this because it weakens government. Remember the good old days in the 1700s when we sent messengers to let our views be known so we wouldn’t have to leave our farms?? How did messengers turn into Senaors then turn into mini tyrants? You know what: I don’t like this messenger system anymore. They promised to protect and defend the COnstitution, but they fail at that every single day.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

The same party that voted down drilling in a tiny portion of ANWR, also supported importing ethanol from Brazil. Ethanol from crops grown on denuded tropical rain-forest — AKA “lungs of the Earth”. And they call themselves environmentalists.

[WHATNEXT?]

I really trust DeMint...so I would want to hear his reasoning...something must have been wrong.

[thouworm]

Keywords say it all:

anwr; cowardsagainstanwr; energyindependence; foolsforsenators; globalsenators;greensenators; senatedoomsenergy; senatedoomsus; senatedoomsusenergy; senaterejectsanwr; unsenators; usenergy;

[Eva]

The bill was the Transportation bill that was rejected, all of those energy related issues were amendments to the bill, most of which were rejected on separate votes, so it’s not clear whether those Republicans voted for the whole transportation bill or amendments.

[Eva]

Try this linkHighway bill is worth billions to companies owned by Soros, Pickens, Douglas and this one - Republicans blocking highway bill for 'political reasons,' says Reid

You have to know what they were voting on to understand the vote.

[Typical_Whitey]

Democrats obstruct lower gas prices...

[TYVets]

Tuesday's vote was the first time in four years that the Senate has voted on a measure including ANWR drilling.

It must be election year.

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[Eva]

Try this link (second try)Highway bill is worth billions to companies owned by Soros, Pickens, Douglas

and this one - Republicans blocking highway bill for 'political reasons,' says Reid

You have to know what they were voting on to understand the vote.

[muleskinner]

Thanks to a very misleading headline, anyone who didn't read the article will make wrong assumptions about various Senators.

This was about an amendment to a TRANSPORTATION BILL. The amendment concerning ANWAR should come up on it's own, not with some other marginally related bill. I thought Sen. Roberts (KS) was better than this - what a knothead. Free ThinkerNY, did you read the article first, or were you in a hurry to post an emotionally charged headline? jeez.

[The Wizard]

where are the commercials saying the democrat senate killed the drilling for new oil....when the hell are the GOP going to get some f’ing balls

[TigersEye]

Whose side are they on? Not the American people’s.