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  • Pelosi's Ploy

    08/12/2008 5:05:31 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 14 replies · 131+ views
    IBD Editorials ^ | August 12, 2008
    Energy Policy: After calling plans to drill for more oil a "hoax," Speaker Nancy Pelosi now says she'll allow a vote on drilling for more crude to reach the floor of the House. We'll believe it when we see it.It's not that we think Pelosi won't let something with the word "drilling" in it come up for a vote. It's just that it's likely to be stuck in one of those big omnibus bills with all sorts of pork-barrel spending, new taxes, restrictions on oil use, new economy-damaging limits on global warming gases or plans to tap the Strategic Petroleum...
  • Madam Speaker, Where Are You?

    08/10/2008 10:25:20 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 28 replies · 159+ views
    Townhall.com ^ | August 11, 2008 | Congressman Thomas Price
    This morning, Republicans will return to the dimmed floor of the House of Representatives to continue to fight on behalf of American families hurting from high gas prices. It has now been ten days since House Democrats turned off the lights and breezed out of Washington for a paid vacation without any meaningful action to bring down energy costs. For months, the American people have demanded more energy production, yet this Democrat majority found the pleas of their constituents just a petty annoyance. But as Speaker Pelosi - off on her self-promoting book tour - has found, when House Republicans...