WASHINGTON — Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich today urged the House of Representatives to pass the Domenici-Landrieu Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act, S. 3711, which would open additional territory in the Gulf of Mexico to oil and gas drilling and share revenues with energy-producing Gulf states. The bill is scheduled for a vote in the House Tuesday during the final lame-duck session of the 109th Congress. “Congress must act to provide the infrastructure necessary to prevent a Katrina-scale disaster from ever reoccurring along the Gulf Coast while providing for our growing energy needs,” Gingrich wrote in his...