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House panel clears way for administration subpoenas on drilling
FOXNEWS ^ | 03/28/12 | FOX

Posted on 03/28/2012 3:19:28 PM PDT by Doogle

A House Committee voted Wednesday to clear the way to subpoena the Obama administration over two separate probes -- one concerning allegations dating back to the BP spill that it misrepresented a report on the temporary offshore drilling ban.

The 23-17 vote along party lines allows GOP Rep. Doc Hastings, chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, to issue the subpoenas, which will go to such agencies as the Interior Department and the Environmental Protection Agency.

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One probe concerns officials rewriting coal-production regulations. The other investigation centers on an administration report on oil production following the April 2010 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig off the Louisiana coast.

A panel of experts said it recommended that drilling in the Gulf resume. However, the final report from Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to President Obama called for a six-month moratorium and was edited to suggest the panel's support of that recommendation.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bp
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1 posted on 03/28/2012 3:19:34 PM PDT by Doogle
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To: Doogle

Ha! Ha! Ha!, Ho! Ho! Ho!, Hee! hee! hee!


2 posted on 03/28/2012 3:26:49 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Doogle

This will go as far, and we will end up with as much justice, as Fast and Furious.


3 posted on 03/28/2012 3:30:19 PM PDT by MestaMachine (obama kills)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Ah! Tom Robbins fan?


4 posted on 03/28/2012 3:32:16 PM PDT by thoolou ("I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous." - David Bradley, inventor of Ctrl-Alt-Del)
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To: Doogle
...one concerning allegations dating back to the BP spill that it misrepresented a report on the temporary offshore drilling ban.

RATS don't want to find out what happened?

5 posted on 03/28/2012 3:33:06 PM PDT by Libloather (The epitome of civility.)
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To: Chode

ping


6 posted on 03/28/2012 3:35:10 PM PDT by Doogle (((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: Doogle
good! his day is coming....
7 posted on 03/28/2012 3:40:17 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: thackney

Ping.


8 posted on 03/28/2012 3:41:48 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: thoolou

More of a “I Am The Walrus” fan.


9 posted on 03/28/2012 3:44:08 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

“a” should be “an.” Duh!


10 posted on 03/28/2012 3:46:15 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Even cowgirls get the blues...


11 posted on 03/28/2012 4:48:52 PM PDT by thoolou ("I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous." - David Bradley, inventor of Ctrl-Alt-Del)
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To: thoolou

“Even cowgirls get the blues...”

Didn’t the gal on “Mary Hartman! Mary Hartman1” record that song? I seem to recall that she did a good job. Or is my old ass brain mistaken?


12 posted on 03/28/2012 4:58:45 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Doogle

Subpoena? Just another thing for a dem to ignore.


13 posted on 03/28/2012 4:59:11 PM PDT by printhead (Standard & Poor - Poor is the new standard.)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Yeah, I remember, she was hot and cross-eyed!


14 posted on 03/28/2012 5:00:05 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Doogle

Another pipeline to nowhere.


15 posted on 03/28/2012 6:13:27 PM PDT by KSanders
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To: Revolting cat!

Mary Kay Place.


16 posted on 03/29/2012 5:25:09 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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