Very disappointed in Sensenbrenner on this. Ugh.
These guys are THROWING AWAY OUR MAJORITY! It will be a bloodbath in 2006, and few will care because these boneheads refuse to get their act together. A bunch of weenies trying to get along with the Democrats. Goodbye, 2006.
Something tells me that Sensenbrenner's and Inglis's votes were not so much votes against ANWR as they were votes against the budget as a whole (and that they thought that defeating ANWR could serve as a poison pill). I can't think of any reason why two solid conservatives from solidly conservative districts with a constituency with very few radical environmentalists would oppose ANWR.
The other votes make sense because either they are liberal or else they think it would hurt them to support ANWR. Mark Kennedy, for example, is running for the Senate in Minnesota, where being pegged as anti-environment (even if unfairly) could lead to his defeat.