Pelosi -not allowing vote on drilling

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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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iVillage Member
Registered: 04-02-2008
Mon, 07-21-2008 - 10:34pm

If you don't buy it there is no profit for them.


iVillage Member
Registered: 06-23-2008
Mon, 07-21-2008 - 10:38pm
Not sure what that has to do with politicians making profits? I guess I could walk to work as could my husband. I mean he'd only have to walk 40 miles down an interstate.
iVillage Member
Registered: 04-02-2008
Mon, 07-21-2008 - 10:44pm

No let's be clear, a poster was saying Bush was lining his friends pockets by this.

iVillage Member
Registered: 06-23-2008
Mon, 07-21-2008 - 11:18pm

iVillage Member
Registered: 05-29-2003
Tue, 07-22-2008 - 8:04am

Obama would have to take less money from oil interests as well then for his campaign.


http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2008/jun/obama-s-special-interest-list-swells

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iVillage Member
Registered: 06-23-2008
Tue, 07-22-2008 - 9:58am
I notice a lot of accusations on this website but no references proving his point. This is not to say that he is wrong I would just like proof.
iVillage Member
Registered: 09-08-2006
Tue, 07-22-2008 - 10:30am

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iVillage Member
Registered: 09-08-2006
Tue, 07-22-2008 - 10:33am
I am not sure how this is related to packaging government land to the oil companies as gifts before Bush leaves office.

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 05-29-2003
Tue, 07-22-2008 - 1:55pm
well.. my random thought was really all about Obama benefitting from Oil too.. I know he's not lining his pockets. Sorry.. just a random thought
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iVillage Member
Registered: 09-08-2006
Tue, 07-22-2008 - 2:34pm

I understand what you are saying.

 

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