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GOP to Strike Arctic Drilling From House Bill
The Washington Post ^ | November 10, 2005 | Jonathan Weisman

Posted on 11/10/2005 4:59:13 AM PST by The Hound Passer

House GOP leaders agreed last night to strip plans to permit oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and in the offshore continental shelf from a $54 billion budget-cutting measure, probably securing the votes to pass the bill today.

The move is a blow to President Bush, who has made expanded oil exploration a priority since he took office. Lawmakers said the White House applied pressure yesterday to Republicans to save the drilling provisions, especially in Alaska, even wooing conservative Democrats who have steadfastly opposed the GOP budget package.

(Excerpt) Read more at media3.washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: 109th; anwr; energy; oildrilling; oilshortage
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With a GOP like this who needs the Dems? First they postpone making the tax cuts permanent, now this. I thought we decided being energy self-sufficient was a good thing. What's going on here?
1 posted on 11/10/2005 4:59:13 AM PST by The Hound Passer
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2 posted on 11/10/2005 4:59:33 AM PST by The Hound Passer (I'm One of 59,054,087 Dumb, Ignorant, Bush Supporters)
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I D I O T S ! ! ! ! ! ! !
3 posted on 11/10/2005 5:03:39 AM PST by Red Badger (Whatever happened to formulas 1 through 408?.........)
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What in HELL are they thinking? Time to flood Hastert with some phonecalls/emails etc. This is outrageous.


4 posted on 11/10/2005 5:05:47 AM PST by goresalooza (Nurses Rock!)
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JUST GREAT........lets all contact our ever faithful congress-critters and thank them personally for (1) $3.00 a gallon gas and (2) for financing the war on terror (for the frickin Arab side!)


5 posted on 11/10/2005 5:06:31 AM PST by newcthem (And Atlas Shrugged.)
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its' amazing when your enemies can get you to do their work for them..


6 posted on 11/10/2005 5:07:36 AM PST by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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Hastert and Company have GOT TO GO!! The Republicans in Congress are all a bunch of weenies! They are scared of their own shadow. BOOOOO


7 posted on 11/10/2005 5:07:44 AM PST by Cricket24 ("We have met the enemy and it's the U.S. press (and the democrats and some Republicans)!")
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A-Holes!


8 posted on 11/10/2005 5:07:49 AM PST by theDentist (The Dems have put all their eggs in one basket-case: Howard "Belltower" Dean.)
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The 8th paragraph says

More important, the Senate negotiators on a House-Senate conference committee will include Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) and Pete V. Domenici (R-N.M.), who have made it clear to House and Senate leaders they will not agree to any final measure that does not include Arctic drilling. One senior GOP aide in the Senate said Domenici and Stevens are willing to bottle up the budget package well into next year if the House does not relent on Arctic drilling.

This isn't over. Let's see what happens in the Senate today.

9 posted on 11/10/2005 5:08:19 AM PST by hflynn ( Soros wouldn't make any sense even if he spelled his name backwards)
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What in HELL are they thinking? Time to flood Hastert with some phonecalls/emails etc. This is outrageous.

Actually you should flood charlie bass's(NH) office he is the RINO spearheading this and giving into the envirowhackos. 90% of the House GOP is for drilling.

But you would rather bash Hastert rather than the true roadblockers the enviorwhackos.

10 posted on 11/10/2005 5:08:24 AM PST by Dane ( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
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Soon they will be MINORITY idiots. Talk radio is trying to spin things to look like the Republicans are in relatively good shape, but another six months of this characteristically spineless behavior, and you can stick a fork in them!


11 posted on 11/10/2005 5:09:43 AM PST by Uncle Vlad
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To drop it is stupid! However, I think they are going to let it be on a bill by itself. That works for me. We shall see. I do not think Bush will let NOT drilling stand.


12 posted on 11/10/2005 5:10:14 AM PST by RedBloodedAmerican
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Can someone come with a list of who to contact, email addresses, phone numbers, etc?


13 posted on 11/10/2005 5:12:25 AM PST by Mayflower Sister
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Dennis Hastert: Phone: 202-225-2976, Fax: 202-225-0697


14 posted on 11/10/2005 5:12:58 AM PST by theDentist (The Dems have put all their eggs in one basket-case: Howard "Belltower" Dean.)
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Could we make 2006 a steeper climb?


15 posted on 11/10/2005 5:13:16 AM PST by Senator Goldwater
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To: Uncle Vlad

Majority in BOTH houses and the White House! The Leadership (NOW ITS AN OXYMORON) must be FRENCH descendents, for they have given up and raised the white flag.............


16 posted on 11/10/2005 5:13:30 AM PST by Red Badger (Whatever happened to formulas 1 through 408?.........)
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Soon they will be MINORITY idiots. Talk radio is trying to spin things to look like the Republicans are in relatively good shape, but another six months of this characteristically spineless behavior, and you can stick a fork in them!

Well it seems you have personal experience being an idiot.

It is charlie bass(RINO-NH) who is giving into the envirowhackos. 90% of the House GOP supports drilling, but you would rather go knee jerk.

17 posted on 11/10/2005 5:13:35 AM PST by Dane ( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
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Made the mistake of listening to Err Amerika on XM in the car this morning. THey are celebrating the drop of the ANWR drilling provisions. Analysis has it that the GOPers up for re-election wanted it dropped in order to help their re-election chances. Seems this weeks elections have sent the message to the GOP that they are vulnerable and had better not push anything with controversy. It appears to me that we have a lame duck president and a lame duck congress. It just seems like the Republicans are paralyzed.


18 posted on 11/10/2005 5:14:14 AM PST by doc30 (Democrats are to morals what and Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
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To: Red Badger

The GOP hasn't been the Party of Reagan for a long, long time.


19 posted on 11/10/2005 5:14:15 AM PST by Uncle Vlad
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When they go to the house/senate reconciliation meeting, the senate will insist that the drilling stays in the bill. The bill gets out of committee with the drilling in, and goes back to the house and senate for final vote. The house memebers will not vote against the final bill {they are pubbies and have the balls the size of sand fleas}.


20 posted on 11/10/2005 5:14:37 AM PST by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist savages - In Honor of Standing Wolf)
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