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The latest version of the CLEAR Act is slated for a floor vote in the House this week as Democrats look for ways to use the Gulf oil spill as a means to pass elements of their unpopular energy agenda. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) stripped out authorization for an independent investigation into the Gulf disaster.  The Natural Resources Committee unanimously passed the amendment in committee markup July 14 offered by Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) that would establish a bipartisan, independent, National Commission on Outer Continental Shelf Oil Spill Prevention. Unlike the commission set up by President Obama -- packed only with...

Now even the Brits admit it: Handing a get-out-of-jail-free card to a terrorist who brought down Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270, was a mistake. It's about time. But why stop there? London should now do everything in its power to get Abdel Basset al-Megrahi back from Libya and behind bars, where he belongs. Washington should hold Britain's feet to the fire on that. And press Libya, too. "The new British government is clear that Megrahi's release was a mistake," a UK envoy said this week, echoing a statement by a spokesman for Prime Minister David Cameron. Megrahi...