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Economy
Senate rejects GOP bill to expand, speed up offshore drilling
2011-05-20
The Senate on Wednesday rejected Republican-backed legislation intended to speed up and expand offshore oil and gas drilling.

In a 42-57 vote, the Senate failed to move forward with the bill, which was opposed by the White House and most Senate Democrats. Republicans needed 60 votes for the measure to proceed.

Every Senate Democrat voted against the motion to proceed along with five Republicans: Sens. Jim DeMint (S.C.), Mike Lee (Utah), Richard Shelby (Ala.), Olympia Snowe
...senior United States Senator-for-Life from Maine, putatively a member of the Republican Party. In 2006 she was named one of America's Top Ten Senators by Time Magazine, for what that's worth...
(Maine) and David Vitter (La.).
Those five Republicans need to be primaried.
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