Pelosi -not allowing vote on drilling

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Mon, 07-21-2008 - 10:08am

Blunt blasts Pelosi for not allowing drilling vote


House Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) on Sunday strongly criticized Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for not allowing a vote on a measure that would allow offshore drilling.


While acknowledging that Pelosi can prevent such a vote, Blunt said the Democratic leader would have to live with that decision, which he argued “does not make sense to the American people.”









“When we’re talking about offshore, we’re talking about 50, 100, 200 miles offshore,” Blunt said on CNN’s “Late Edition.” “Nobody's going to see that. This is an environmentally safe thing to do.”



Earlier in the program, Pelosi had stated in a pre-taped interview that she would not allow such a vote.


“We’re going to exhaust our other remedies in terms of increasing supply in America,” Pelosi said. When pressed on the issue, she added that she has “no plans” to allow such a vote.


Instead, she accused congressional Republicans of having blocked the Democrats’ initiatives to address the country’senergy problems and again called for opening the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to ease the cost at the pump.


“I think what you’ve got to realize here is by saying we should do that, you’re really admitting that supply makes a difference,” Blunt said. “That means we should be going after real supply, not what we’ve been able to hoard away.”


http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/blunt-blasts-pelosi-for-not-allowing-drilling-vote-2008-07-20.html

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Registered: 08-18-2005
Mon, 07-21-2008 - 10:53am
Good grief, this makes me so mad! Have the vote up or down..she must be afraid her ideals would not win. I'm disgusted. She obviously does not care about the american people or she'd at least let the members vote.

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Registered: 08-18-2005
Mon, 07-21-2008 - 10:56am
I should add that I feel it would be irresponsible to use the SPR right now, they have other options.

iVillage Member
Registered: 06-23-2008
Mon, 07-21-2008 - 12:13pm
Your little ones have the cutest curly Q's
iVillage Member
Registered: 08-18-2005
Mon, 07-21-2008 - 12:16pm
Thank you! :)

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-19-2003
Mon, 07-21-2008 - 12:24pm
Isn't it awful when we become pawns in politics.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 07-21-2008 - 1:19pm
She is using the rules.

 


 


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iVillage Member
Registered: 09-08-2006
Mon, 07-21-2008 - 2:43pm

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LOL.... or I am trying to line the pockets of my friends before I leave office policy.

 

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 07-21-2008 - 2:52pm

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I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure

iVillage Member
Registered: 04-02-2008
Mon, 07-21-2008 - 10:22pm

Why would it be lining his "friends" pockets, you don't have to buy it.

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Registered: 06-23-2008
Mon, 07-21-2008 - 10:31pm
The concern isn't businesses making money but

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