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Home Front Economy
Pelosi 'No Energy' Bill Part of House Draft CR
2008-09-23
by Jed Babbin of Human Events, link found thanks to Red State.
This is an outrage. If the bailout is going to be used to stifle the energy plan and as a Christmas tree for earmarks, let it fail and let Wall Street explain it to the Democrats.
House Democrats are bypassing renewal of the offshore oil drilling ban by including the entire Pelosi "drill nothing" energy bill in a draft of a Continuing Resolution. HUMAN EVENTS obtained a copy of the most recent House draft CR this morning.

The Pelosi bill, HR 6899, fails to open more than a miniscule part of the available offshore drilling areas and -- even worse -- it establishes permanent bans on development of most other domestic energy sources (natural gas, oil shale, etc.) and does nothing to develop nuclear power. It passed the House earlier this month and is now languishing in the Senate as a separate measure.

As one member of Congress said last week, it's got more incentives for bicycle riding than for nuclear power.

...Senate sources tell HUMAN EVENTS this draft is dead on arrival.

However, there is every reason to believe that this maneuver will be repeated later this week, and that the House and Senate Democrats will make it a part of any deal with the President on his financial bailout package.

Stay tuned. This is getting uglier by the moment.
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