Wednesday, August 02, 2006

The Senate did something yesterday

Booyaka!

The US Senate approved legislation that would make 8.3 million acres (3.4 million hectares) of Gulf of Mexico coastline available for oil and natural gas drilling.

The bill, which passed by a vote of 71 to 25, would end a quarter-century ban against tapping the coastal waters for energy, and comes as Americans face ever-spiraling prices at the gas pump and to heat and cool their homes.
We'll see what happens in conference with the House.

This is the kind of thing Republicans should be running ads on, to disabuse "working families" (and union workers) of the notion that Democrats care about them.

US Senate backs opening protected US coastline to oil, gas drilling

Seen @ Gateway Pundit

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