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Posted on 07/09/2008 3:09:15 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Republicans said on Wednesday they are working with Democrats to come up with compromise energy legislation that would tackle record gasoline prices and open more offshore areas to oil drilling.
Instead of trying to move a broad energy bill that is loaded with all sorts of energy proposals, a bipartisan group of 10 senators is working on more narrow legislation that would have a better chance of winning the 60 votes needed in the Senate to block a filibuster.
"(We) are trying to move us in a direction to get a package that could actually pass the Senate," Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters on Capitol Hill.
"I think we have a real chance of passing energy legislation," said Republican Sen. Bob Corker.
Corker said Democrats "realize that Republicans would like to work with them to actually craft legislation that will pass."
Corker said whatever legislation comes out of the bipartisan group, it will likely include language expanding offshore oil drilling, developing onshore oil shale, promoting plug-in hybrid vehicles and giving the Commodity Futures Trading Commission the tools it needs to better monitor energy futures markets.
But boosting oil production is what Republicans want the most.
"You know, clearly, any bill to have any credibility would have to deal, at least in part, with the supply issue," said McConnell.
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Place your bets.
McConnell acknowledged that Democrats and Republicans have had a “tough time” agreeing to expanding domestic oil production.
“But I think the American people are now demanding it,” he said.
They should scrap their gay little compact fluorescent bulb mandate while they’re at it.
Drill now!
Do it for the children!
I’ll believe it when I see it......
Can a do nothing Congre$$ redeem itself?
There may not be enough time to do so ... not that there is much hope they would do it anyway, no matter the price at the pump or on the store shelf.
They are so far removed from reality, it isn’t funny.
And they wonder why the Congress has an approval rating of just 9%. We have a do nothing Congress full of wimps.
Now that is a Keeper.....
ROFL!
Yeah...they’ll put it in the bill...and then deny the permits...that’s what is happening now. Please send money to the Club for Growth so we can run the bums out!
2nd Graders don’t Hate America.
If you like $5/gal, Thank Congress.
Pray for W and Our Troops
If this passes, and the price of crude falls immediately, the MSM will be repeating the mantra that “it was due to fall anyway” 10,000 times per hour.
I saw a bunch of dim bulbs from my town standing out by Hwy 1 waving signs that said “Just Say No to Offshore Drilling,” “Honk to Protect Our Environment from George Bush,” etc. I think they were mostly members of our local fruitcake organization, the “Grandmothers for Peace,” who usually have signs graphically expressing their Bush Derangement Syndrome with a few insulting remarks about the troops thrown in.
Nobody was honking.
If they pass ANY drilling go ahead...it scr*** Obama to a pole....which is okay!!
Hillary hasn't said boo.
Where's Al??
You should have pulled over and asked them to fill your tank.
Pray for W and Our Troops
yitbos
Please FReepmail to be added to the Congress Watch Ping List
* List (chapter and verse) all the regulations and laws that need to be repealed in order to drill, and drill now. Use this list as the new “Contract With America for Energy Independence and National Security”. Have a mega-bill introduced that in one fell swoop removes the self-imposed energy embargo.
Please note how the Repubs are rolling over and grabbing their ankles once again and shooting themselves in the foot in the process.
WHY, do they even have to TRY and work with the RATS?
If ONE R Congresscriter had "a pair" (and its obvious there is not a one) they would simply hammer the Rats over and over and over, regarding their unwillingness to allow offshore exploration and make it a central issue in the upcoming elections.
But noooooo, they are playing right into the DemoRats' hands and will allow the libs to get on board (AND TAKE CREDIT) for what I predict will be a farce.
Oh, by the way, did anyone notice the absence of any mention about ANWAR???
No surprise there.
Sheesh, is it any wonder that I (and so many other Conservatives) will stay home this November?
There's not a dime's worth of difference between the Socialist Rats and the Wuss Pubes!!!
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