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.
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.
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}.
It seems that letters, emails and phone calls to Stevens and Domenici would also be in order.
These two senators need our support.