RSSHouse Vote Ends Quarter-Century-Old Drilling Ban
From: New York Sun | September 25, 2008
WASHINGTON The House, responding to growing public demand for more domestic energy, voted yesterday to end a quarter-century ban on oil and natural gas drilling off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, giving Republicans a major victory on energy policy. An extension of the ban for another year was left off a $630 billion-plus stopgap government spending bill that President Bush had threatened to veto possibly shutting down the government if the anti-drilling measure were included. The bill…
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