WE DON'T NEED NO STINKIN' MEXICO OR MIDDLE EAST...WE HAVE OUR OWN!
...DRILL.
Posted on 03/15/2006 1:30:16 PM PST by Pukin Dog
Under the radar screen, the Senate has marked up the 07 budget to include ANRW drilling. There is a vote tonight in the Senate starting around 5pm eastern time on a measure by Maria Cantwell to remove ANRW from the budget. This time it should pass in the Senate before moving on to the House.
All you folks who thought the matter was dead were not paying attention. ANWR is alive and well, and starting tonight, we are one step closer to soaking those Caribou in crude oil. (that is a joke for the humorless among us)
Drill, baby. DRILL!!
Hey! That's on my business card!
Yeah, it'll be in the budget. Big deal. It was in the budget last year and then through the usual Senate shenanigans, it was pulled out with the help of weepy Republicans who don't want to drill for any oil but want to keep the heating subsidies coming.
We'll see. I want the drilling to occur,....
Let's see, I read here for months and months how it was going to pass and we would soon be drilling. I am still waiting.
WE DON'T NEED NO STINKIN' MEXICO OR MIDDLE EAST...WE HAVE OUR OWN!
...DRILL.
Swim, caribou. SWIM!!
This is great news. I hope our congresscritters pass the bill with this provision intact. Prepare to see liberals' heads exploding everywhere.
bttt
"Drill, baby. DRILL!!
Swim, caribou. SWIM!!"
RUN RUSS RUN!!
Thanks for the post. Drill Baby Drill to the tune of Disco Inferno.
ANWR.org can be quoted fully.
The Senate Budget Committee under Chairman Judd Gregg (R-NH) voted 11-9 today to include ANWR legislation in FY 2007 Budget mark-up. Senator Dominici (R-NM) and Senator Stevens (R-AK) drafted language for Chairman Gregg to include $3 billion in revenue from ANWR lease sales in the national budget between 2007-2011. These revenues are estimated by the Office of Management and Budget, and the President’s proposed ’07 Budget, to be $7 billion within the first 5 years.
Comments from politicians in the last few weeks have indicated that ANWR legislation will have a much easier time in the budget reconciliation process if not bogged down by other controversial issues and be able to be listed as a stand alone measure. Last year’s removal of ANWR language in the ’06 Budget was blamed on conflict with too many other controversial issues such as Medicaid and Katrina relief. ANWR language is unique to the Budget as it is one of the few issues that brings money in to the national treasury and thus benefits us all rather than a measure that spends money and costs us all. ANWR revenue and development would neither cost the government money, nor tax the population throughout its lifespan.
Senate Resources Chairman Pete Domenici commented before the vote that 10 years and 3 months ago Congress voted to open ANWR that was vetoed by President Clinton. If that had passed ANWR would be producing today and American debt imported oil dependence would be dramatically reduced.
The Budget mark-up is the first step in process of bring ANWR legislation into law. The Budget Resolution Bill will now go to the floor of the Senate for debate next week. On the Senate floor the bill will be subject to “motions-to-strike” individual aspects of the bill and then a final vote on the bill itself. After approval of a bill by the Senate the bill will go to a Conference Committee between the House and Senate which will work out compromise language between the House and Senate versions. Upon the successful passage out of a joint Conference Committee an exact duplicate copy of the bill will return to both floors for further debate and a final vote.
Debate on the Senate Budget mark-up will hopefully begin next week. It is expected that, similar to last year, motions to strike will be introduced by Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and other anti-ANWR politicians to remove ANWR legislation.
The battle for ANWR however has already begun in the House where a letter from 24 “moderate” republicans against including ANWR in the Budget process has been submitted to Budget Committee Chairman Jim Nussle (R-IO). It is not expected that the House Budget Committee will begin debate and mark-up a FY2007 Budget until after the St. Patricks Day recess (March 20-24).
A calendar of Congressional budget activities is available at:
http://www.house.gov/budget/budgcalendar.pdf
Official press releases on the Mark-up are available at the Senate Budget Committee’s web site, http://budget.senate.gov/republican/
Have you guys seen this?
We need this oil. There is no single way to break out dependence on foriegn oil. The sooner we do that the sooner the middle east can just go pound sand.
Amen to that. And do it NOW!
Don't let the greenies fool you. Caribou love Drilling!!!
Man, I really hope we get it through this time. We need all the oil we can get outside the Middle East, and we need to show those enviro-socialists that we're not going to let them tie us down anymore. I'd love to see those socialists get defeated. Let's DRILL!!
I can't quite understand what we're saving ANWR for. Tourists? There aren't any.
The native population? They want it.
The caribou? Won't faze them.
And 100 years from now, when the oil companies have finished their work, nobody will be able to detect where they once were.
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