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(Democrat Controlled) Senate rejects GOP oil drilling plan
cnn ^
| 5/18/2011
| cnn
Posted on 05/18/2011 6:05:39 PM PDT by tobyhill
The Senate rejected a Republican measure Wednesday to expand offshore oil and gas drilling in U.S. coastal waters, signaling a continued partisan stalemate over energy policy and, more specifically, how to respond to rising gas prices.
The bill was defeated in a 42-57 vote. Sixty votes were required for passage.
Five Republicans -- Alabama's Richard Shelby, Louisiana's David Vitter, Maine's Olympia Snowe, South Carolina's Jim DeMint, and Utah's Mike Lee -- voted against the bill.
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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Alabama; US: Louisiana; US: Maine; US: Nevada; US: South Carolina; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: alabama; davidvitter; demint; drilling; harryreid; jimdemint; lee; louisiana; maine; marylandrieu; mikelee; nevada; oil; olympiasnowe; richardshelby; shelby; snowe; southcarolina; utah; vitter
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posted on
05/18/2011 6:05:43 PM PDT
by
tobyhill
To: tobyhill
To: johniegrad
Don’t make sense. There must be more to this. (didn’t read the article)
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posted on
05/18/2011 6:09:49 PM PDT
by
KoRn
(Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
To: tobyhill
Those bastards in D.C. want the little guy to pay 10 buck per gallon. If they deny it, they are lying.
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posted on
05/18/2011 6:10:16 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
("...that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,..")
To: tobyhill
Gotta be a reason for DeMint declining. What’s in the bill that is toxic? or not?
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posted on
05/18/2011 6:10:20 PM PDT
by
acapesket
To: KoRn
First thing I thought is that it must be a flawed bill.
To: tobyhill
What in the hell? Demint and Lee?
You know what (you being everyone that reads this) we need to go in and start physically jerking each and every one of these traitors out of their seats.
This is beyond bizarre. Demint?????? WTF????
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posted on
05/18/2011 6:11:18 PM PDT
by
Outlaw Woman
("...; because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee,... "Hosea 4:6)
To: acapesket
If he sponsored the bill, does he have to vote against so it can come up again?
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posted on
05/18/2011 6:11:54 PM PDT
by
gov_bean_ counter
(Put Obie in a dress and call him "The Last Queen of Scotland".)
To: johniegrad
“Some senators from oil-producing states argued the bill didn't go far enough. Republican Vitter and Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-Louisiana, claimed it would actually “slow down the permitting process instead of streamlining and accelerating it.”
This is such a bunk excuse. Anything is going to be faster than what's going on now, nothing.
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posted on
05/18/2011 6:12:04 PM PDT
by
tobyhill
To: tobyhill
I was wondering why Vitter would vote against it. Here's the explanation:
Some senators from oil-producing states argued the bill didn't go far enough. Republican Vitter and Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-Louisiana, claimed it would actually "slow down the permitting process instead of streamlining and accelerating it."
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posted on
05/18/2011 6:12:04 PM PDT
by
Cicero
To: tobyhill
Do what the Democrats do. Send it to them over, and over, and over. Attach it to their spending bills. And then scream that the Democrats want you to spend $5.00 for a gallon of gas. Do it over, and over, and over again.
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posted on
05/18/2011 6:12:19 PM PDT
by
FlyVet
To: KoRn
Dont make sense. There must be more to this.
There usually is.
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posted on
05/18/2011 6:13:19 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: Cicero
Anything is going to be faster than what’s going on now.
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posted on
05/18/2011 6:13:46 PM PDT
by
tobyhill
To: tobyhill
You beat me to it, by zero seconds. I’m not sure, but Landrieu did just vote against the increased taxes on oil companies. They do generally listen to what the oil companies need to increase production in the Gulf.
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posted on
05/18/2011 6:13:55 PM PDT
by
Cicero
To: tobyhill
Smells like a poison pill amendment was attached by the Democrat Senate before the bill came to the floor for a vote.
Four of the five GOP "No" votes -- Shelby, Vitter, DeMint and Lee -- don't make sense. Of them, only the "pristine" Ms. Snowe would be expected to be in opposition to an otherwise common-sense bill.
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posted on
05/18/2011 6:17:49 PM PDT
by
okie01
(THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance On Parade)
To: acapesket
Gotta be a reason for DeMint declining. Could it be that having voted on the prevailing side, he may request a motion to reconsider?
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posted on
05/18/2011 6:19:08 PM PDT
by
ROCKLOBSTER
(Celebrate Republicans Freed the Slaves Month...April.)
To: Cicero
"Some senators from oil-producing states argued the bill didn't go far enough. Republican Vitter and Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-Louisiana, claimed it would actually "slow down the permitting process instead of streamlining and accelerating it."Per article.
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posted on
05/18/2011 6:22:15 PM PDT
by
Jane Long
(2 Chron 7:14)
To: okie01
My only problem with any Republican voting no is that despite the fact the bill was not going to pass, it puts it on record as a bipartisan defeat.
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posted on
05/18/2011 6:24:44 PM PDT
by
tobyhill
To: tobyhill
Well there goes any support I had for a DeMint run at the WH in ‘12...
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posted on
05/18/2011 6:26:21 PM PDT
by
piytar
(Obama opposed every tool used to get Osama. So of course he gets the credit. /hurl)
To: ROCKLOBSTER
Could it be that having voted on the prevailing side, he may request a motion to reconsider? That could be it. But it doesn't explain three other GOPers voting "no" (Shelby, Vitter, Lee).
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posted on
05/18/2011 6:28:28 PM PDT
by
okie01
(THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance On Parade)
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