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  • Chafee Votes to Keep Gas Prices High

    10/28/2005 3:36:20 PM PDT · by prairiebreeze · 51 replies · 1,729+ views
    Human Events Online ^ | October 28, 2005 | Robert B. Bluey
    Senate Democrats, sensing what they hope will be an opportunity to blame Republicans for the high price of gasoline, voted in unison Wednesday in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee to help defeat a bill that would have streamlined the building of new refineries. The eight committee Democrats won over liberal Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R.-R.I.), whose vote against Chairman Jim Inhofe’s Gas PRICE Act (S 1772) means Republicans will have to take other steps if they want to push a refinery bill through the Senate this year. Inhofe (R.-Okla.) told HUMAN EVENTS he pleaded with Chafee to vote with...