The House approves ANWR drilling all the time. It's the Senate that blocks it.
Didn't ANWR drilling actually pass the Senate a few months back, only to be blocked by the RINO's in the house ?
How many times have they voted on this for Chrissake?
Last year it was the other way around. The votes are there in the both Houses to pass this. It got through the Senate by attaching it to the budget, but the Democrats that voted for ANWR as a stand alone in the House opposed other items in the budget, so they were not there to offset the House RINOs as they normally do. It's a mess. What you do to get it through one House keeps it from passing in the other. Without attaching it to the budget, it is subject to Senate filibuster.