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Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Associated issues: Commitment to Oklahoma, National Security and Energy Independence, Get the Facts on Energy & Gas Prices
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell delivered the following remarks on the Senate floor Tuesday regarding the need for a serious and balanced approach to lowering the price at the pump: “As we stand here, Americans are suffering from the most dramatic oil shock in memory. A single barrel of crude oil costs almost three times today what it did a year and a half ago. This is a crisis that demands our full attention.
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Thursday, July 10, 2008
Associated issues: National Security and Energy Independence, Get the Facts on Energy & Gas Prices
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Thursday, June 26, 2008
Associated issues: Global Warming, National Security and Energy Independence, Get the Facts on Energy & Gas Prices
Sampling of articles in past week:
Politico – Dems' ‘stumble’ - Energy proposals stymied – June 26, 2008
Speaker Nancy Pelosi hoped to send House Democrats home for the Fourth of July recess with a series of votes that would show they’re serious about easing the pain at the pump. [ . . . ] But nothing has gone according to plan. The price-gouging bill failed to garner the two-thirds support necessary to pass. An accounting issue forced leaders to put off for a day the so-called “use it or lose it” measure. And the legislation to curb speculation is now caught up in a member fight over the proper path forward — a fight that exposes the misgivings some Democrats have about this activist agenda. […] The Democrats’ stumbles come as congressional Republicans continue to push aggressively for more domestic oil and gas production on the Outer Continental Shelf and in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as well as for an ambitious plan to turn coal shale beneath the High Plains into natural gas.
FrontPageMag.com: Hollywood Once Hailed Offshore Drilling – June 23, 2008
Excerpt: By 1953 Hollywood (no less!) was already hailing the pioneering wildcatters who moved major mountains – technological, logistical, psychological, cultural – to tap and reap this source that today provides a quarter of America's domestic petroleum, without causing a single major oil spill in the process. This record stands despite dozens of hurricanes – including the two most destructive in North American history, Camille and Katrina – repeatedly battering the drilling and production structures, along with the 20,000 miles of pipeline that transport the oil shoreward. This is the most extensive offshore pipeline network in the world. In the 1953 movie “Thunder Bay,” Jimmy Stewart plays the complicated protagonist, Steve Martin, the hard-bitten, ex-navy oil engineer who built the first offshore oil platform off Louisiana in 1947. "The brawling, mauling story of the biggest bonanza of them all!" says the Universal ad for the studio's first wide-screen movie.
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Thursday, June 26, 2008
Associated issues: Commitment to Oklahoma, National Security and Energy Independence, Get the Facts on Energy & Gas Prices
The ranking Republican on the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Jim Inhofe tells Newsmax correspondent Ashley Martella that Democrats will not allow drilling in petroleum-rich areas of the outer continental shelf or anywhere in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. He says people fed up with prohibitive gasoline prices need to pressure them.
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Friday, June 20, 2008
Associated issues: Improving the Service of the Federal Bureaucracy, Global Warming, Commitment to Cost-Benefit Analysis, National Security and Energy Independence, Get the Facts on Energy & Gas Prices
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Associated issues: Gas PRICE Act, Commitment to Oklahoma, Commitment to Cost-Benefit Analysis, National Security and Energy Independence
President’s 4 point plan: Expanding exploration of the Outer Continental Shelf, Develop oil shales, Open ANWR, and Expand refining capacity.
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Associated issues: Commitment to Oklahoma, Commitment to Cost-Benefit Analysis, National Security and Energy Independence
ANWR Votes
10/27/95 – The Senate voted on a bill to implement a competitive leasing program for oil and gas exploration, development, and production within the coastal plain of ANWR. The bill passed 52-47. Of that, 52 Republicans voted for and 46 Democrats voted against.
11/17/95 – The Senate voted on a motion to adopt a conference report on a bill to implement a competitive leasing program for oil and gas exploration, development, and production within the coastal plain of ANWR. The motion passed 52-47. Of that, 52 Republicans voted for and 46 Democrats voted against.
12/6/95 – President Clinton vetoed the Balanced Budget Act which included a provision to open ANWR.
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Thursday, May 29, 2008
Associated issues: Global Warming, Commitment to Cost-Benefit Analysis, National Security and Energy Independence
10/27/95 – The Senate voted on a bill to implement a competitive leasing program for oil and gas exploration, development and production within the coastal plain of ANWR. The bill passed 52-47. Of that, 52 Republicans voted for and 46 Democrats voted against.
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Friday, May 23, 2008
Associated issues: Commitment to Oklahoma, National Security and Energy Independence
Yesterday Senator Inhofe joined in a colloquy with Senators Allard (R-CO) and Stevens (R-AK) regarding the need to develop domestic energy resources and increase domestic refining capacity in order bring down the high price of gas at the pump. You Tube videos are now posted below. For more information, click on yesterday's press release.
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Friday, May 16, 2008
Associated issues: Commitment to Independent and Verifiable Science, Global Warming, Lieberman-Warner Opposition Resource Center; Impacts of Costly Climate Bill Exposed, Commitment to Oklahoma, National Security and Energy Independence
In just two weeks, the United States Senate will consider global warming cap-and-trade legislation before the United States Senate that, if passed, would drastically increase energy costs at the gas pump, in the grocery store, and in our homes – all for no environmental gain. Yet despite the enormous financial burden this bill would impose on American families and American workers, the Senate has yet to fully examine this bill. To help facilitate the debate and provide information to the American people about the severe economic ramifications of this bill, Senator Inhofe announced yesterday, May 15, 2008, the release of an EPW Committee minority white paper incorporating all of the most recent government and private group sector economic analyses of the bill. In addition, Senator Inhofe also announced the launch of a new webpage ( www.epw.senate.gov/lieberman-warnerbillexposed )on the minority portion of the EPW Committee website that now serves as a central hub for all information exposing the flaws of the Lieberman-Warner bill.
The page will be updated frequently over the next two weeks and throughout consideration of the bill. A sampling of the latest news now included on the new web page is included below:
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