Senate rejects GOP oil drilling plan (GOP measure, defeated Tuesday by a vote of 56-42)

AP on Yahoo ^ | 5/13/08 | H. Josef Hebert - ap

[NormsRevenge]

WASHINGTON - The Senate has rejected a Republican energy plan that calls for opening an Alaska wildlife refuge and some offshore waters to oil development. Supporters of the measure couldn't get the needed 60 votes to overcome a Democratic-led filibuster threat.

Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said more domestic oil production is needed to keep prices in check and to reduce U.S. dependence on oil imports.

Opponents said areas such as the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and coastal waters that have been off limits to drilling for 25 years ought to remain that out of bounds to oil companies. The GOP measure, defeated Tuesday by a vote of 56-42, would have allowed coastal states to get a waiver to the offshore drilling ban.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

The list is up:

YEAs ---42

Alexander (R-TN)
Allard (R-CO)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Bennett (R-UT)
Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Craig (R-ID)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Domenici (R-NM)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hagel (R-NE)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Isakson (R-GA)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lugar (R-IN)
McConnell (R-KY)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Specter (R-PA)
Stevens (R-AK)
Sununu (R-NH)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (R-VA)
Wicker (R-MS)

NAYs ---56

Akaka (D-HI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Biden (D-DE)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Byrd (D-WV)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Clinton (D-NY)
Coleman (R-MN)
Collins (R-ME)
Conrad (D-ND)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dole (R-NC)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Kohl (D-WI)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Martinez (R-FL)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Obama (D-IL)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schumer (D-NY)
Smith (R-OR)
Snowe (R-ME)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Tester (D-MT)
Webb (D-VA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)

Not Voting - 2
Inhofe (R-OK)
McCain (R-AZ)

[stratboy]

Careful, you will probably get blasted for going after McCain. I just heard pieces of his speech on Rush about his views on global warming. Appears he buys into it.

This is the first election where I will truly hold my nose and vote for the lesser of two evils. I have been voting since Reagan's second term. Never has the difference between the candidates been so blurred. Aside from his view on Iraq and judges, I have no commonality with McCain.

Thanks for letting me vent.

[Liberty Valance]

This is just the beginning. If Congress is willing to surrender common sense as well as our economy, President Barak Hussein Obama ought to just about finish us off. “Lawd don’cha feel the change.”

[headstamp 2]

Now they should beat the Dems over the head with it!

[AuntB]

“McCain ‘sat this one out’....LOL”

Yes, as he did the last important immigration vote. After all, he couldn’t hardly have his anti-conservative votes recorded, could he?

[Enchante]

"Why AREN'T the Republicans screaming to high-heaven on this one?"

UH, maybe because McCain is just about as bad as the Demagogues on energy issues?

[Texas Federalist]

You have forgotten how the Rats filibustered everything. The Pubs never had a commanding lead to overcome it and the Rhinos within.

The RINOS within are not the problem. The problem is that the RINOs leading the party, including the GOP presidential nominee, OPPOSE DRILLING!!!!

[TribalPrincess2U]

Why AREN’T the Republicans screaming to high-heaven on this on?

Because we have a lot of old corrupt, don’t make waves farts, who don’t have the nads and/or in cahoots with the left. They’re all corrupt.

Well, it’s time we got some FRESH BLOOD in the GOP.

[Enchante]

"The GOP needs to keep hammering away at this relentlessly. It’s an election year issue that’s a big winner."

Not when we have a Presidential nominee who's pretty much with the Demagogues on energy issues.......

[AuntB]

I see all of McCain’s favorites voted against drilling.

Like Olympia Snowe, who the McCain campaign recently donated $1600 to her campaign, while his campaign is broke. He’s going to need his Rino’s if he is president.

[AuntB]

“Because we have a lot of old corrupt, don’t make waves farts, who don’t have the nads and/or in cahoots with the left. They’re all corrupt.

Well, it’s time we got some FRESH BLOOD in the GOP.”

Hallelujah!

[BARLF]

Thanks for the list.

[MinorityRepublican]

Elizabeth Dole? How disappointing.

[LadyNavyVet]

Martinez, figures, that putz. I can’t wait to vote against him.

[colorcountry]

Not one “D” on the Yea side.

Typical.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Elizabeth Dole? How disappointing?

Yeah, they finally got her.

[theBuckwheat]

If elected members of government are term-limited without doing the same for the unelected bureaucracy, the bureaucrats will end up running the government. We have seen this already in the way the State Department and CIA have been running their own agendas in opposition to the direction set by Bush. For example, a carefully-timed NIE thwarted the momentum to put real pressure on Iran to stop development of nuclear weapons.

Term limits are, on balance, not useful at deterring the liberal legislative agenda.

However, one important (but long term) issue is ignored: freeing children from liberal-dominated, government-run (factory) schools. Homeschoolers are largely conservative for good reason. Vouchers would allow parents to send their children to private schools of their choice, and such schools would not all be dominated by liberals.

The best way to deter liberals in the legislature is by having more conservative voters!

[floriduh voter]

Bin Laden set out to bring the us economy to its knees. While hiding out, OPEC is doing it for him. And POTUS is mtg w/the Saudis this week. Watch the PRICE PER BARREL go up even more. Binnie is winning cuz we will not use our own resources and he knows it. Al Gore's winning too - he's getting filthy rich.

I need to get a bicycle before they get too pricey...

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Time for the pitchforks and torches.

[RockinRight]

Too bad there’s no way to make them pay $10 and us pay $1/gallon at the same time.