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The hole in the Russian Soyuz spacecraft attached to the station was spotted on Aug. 30. The crew discovered a leak that was creating a slight loss of pressure and plugged the hole with epoxy and gauze. Prokopyev said at a news conference the cavity started from the capsule's interior and "it's up to the investigative organs to judge when that hole was made." The astronauts' quick identification and repair of the hole demonstrated "the crew was ready for any developments," he said. The hole didn't pose a danger to Prokopyev and crewmates Serena Aunon-Chancellor of NASA and Alexander Gerst...

The White House Gets DrilledJULY 9, 2010 How ideologically stacked is President Obama's offshore drilling commission? So much that even many of his fellow Democrats can't support it. Five Democrats on the Senate Energy Committee last week delivered an embarrassing rebuke to the White House, voting with Republicans to have Congress set up an "independent" commission to investigate the BP disaster, bypassing the President's appointees. Offered by Wyoming Republican John Barrasso to broader oil-spill legislation, the amendment that passed the committee on an 15-8 vote charges the Democratic and Republican leaderships with naming a 10-person commission. It emphasizes that appointees...

I remember reading about some law that required that if an oil well was drilled before a certain year, the gasoline generated from it had a maximum price associated with it. The oil companies didn't want to pump oil from these wells because they could not sell at the current high price. Does anyone know the name of the law that references this situation? I believe it was during the 70's or the 80's. Was this law ever repealed?