House Passes Three Bills Lifting Obama’s Drilling Moratorium
- Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:24pm by
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WASHINGTON (AP/THE BLAZE) — The Republican-controlled House has easily passed the last of three bills to expedite and expand oil and gas drilling. While these bills promise to create jobs and expedite oil production, both the Senate and the White House stand in opposition.
In a 243-179 vote Thursday, the House passed a measure that would open up areas off the West and East coasts, Alaska and the eastern Gulf of Mexico to drilling. The Obama administration pulled back on leasing in some of those spots after the Gulf oil spill last year to further evaluate the environmental consequences. It never considered drilling in the Pacific. FOX News has more:
Republicans say that the bill, along with [the] two other drilling measures passed earlier this month, would create 1.2 million jobs and lower the price of oil. The Congressional Budget Office says that the offshore lease sales would generate $800 million in revenue over ten years.
The bill directs the Interior Department to select lease areas based on how much oil and gas they contain. The measure joins two others passed earlier by the House to speed up drilling and leasing.
President Obama has a complicated history when it comes to domestic oil procurement. While Obama originally supported expanding oil and gas exploration, the Gulf oil disaster changed his course:
In March 2010, Obama sounded like he wanted to expand the plan with more oil and gas exploration on the Outer Continental Shelf. But he left out the Northeast and West coast to appease political supporters opposed to drilling. The policy included expanded drilling in the Arctic and Gulf of Mexico.
The president then changed his mind about those plans after the April 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and a six-month moratorium was instituted in the Atlantic and eastern Gulf areas — set to expire Nov. 30, 2010.
With all three bills unlikely to pass the Senate, they will probably fall legislatively flat. That said, their proposal and passage in the House is a significant development in the energy independence dialogue.
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Fight for America
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:00pmOne big mouth yelled that doing drilling now wouldn’t matter for at least 10 years.
Isn’t that the same thing other big mouths in DC said a decade ago and a decade before that?
What foreign countries are our elected officials trying to help – at our expense?
Ya gotta start sometime guys.
Report Post »EJ1979
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 5:01pmIt takes Halliburton all of a couple days to set up a drill site to frac, please, 10 years, anyone standing in the way to drill should be hung for terrorism on the middle class.
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:57pmI am pretty sure that Obambi will lift the ban on drilling now because it will be good to campaign on. But rest assured that if somehow he does get re-elected that ban will become in full effect again. Accidents on drilling rigs are just like flying in an aircraft. Everything goes well until something is missed or breaks then you have accidents. Hopefully we can get Obambi out of our hair forever.
Report Post »wormwood
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:57pm@JEFFREYFREEZONE…the wrench is called the US Senate which will never pass what the GOP House passes just because they can, the little babies. LOL
Report Post »ZaphodsPlanet
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:55pmPlease don’t tell me this site is going to start making AP material a regular thing. Love how the first photo I saw before I logged in was that of the burning oil rig…. after I logged in it changed. You made a mistake hiring someone from the Huff Po to run this site Glenn..
Report Post »Grandmadar
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 6:40pmHmmmm. maybe an infiltrator.
Report Post »REVENANT
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:55pmYoo bad the Democrats want $7 a gallon.
Report Post »siebegorman
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:54pmHey Obama, get the hint? Drill baby drill.
Report Post »UpstateNYConservative
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:54pmDemocrats, the party of ‘no’…
No oil
Report Post »No jobs
No debt relief
No tax relief
No fiscal solvency
No respect for personal liberty
No free choices
No sense of responsibility
No imagination
No concept of reality
No clear-headed thinking
No common sense
wormwood
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:58pmBrains. You forgot no brains….oh, and no balls either. And I forgot no……oh never mind, we get the point
Report Post »Grandmadar
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 6:38pmVery good! The only compassion Dems have is when they can use other’s money to help people. If all our politicians were to expose their giving we would see who the really compassionate people are.
Report Post »Mary M. Tebbe
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:52pmWe have a greater oil reserve in this Country than Saudi Arabia, so we should drill our own oil. It would bring 3 million jobs, and help to pay down the debt. That’s what I heard someone (sorry, I forgot his name) on Fox News tell us this past week-end. Whatever the case may be, we should drill our own oil and become self-sufficient again, and in the meantime, bring our jobs back to America where they belong and stop importing inferior products from other countries. Anyone who takes our jobs overseas is a traitor in my book. And…get rid of unions and pay our own people a FAIR WAGE, lower taxes, and lower the interest rate, and start caring about our Country and our own people. The rest of the world hates us anyway. And…all those who hate America and Americans…go back to where you came from. We don’t much care for you either. And…the next time you need help…cry to the UN and see where that gets you. Just sayin’. I’m getting tired of the whiners.
Report Post »The democrats in the Senate, and the people in the White House will fight this thing tooth and nail, because they don‘t care about America and they don’t much care to produce jobs for the American people, or they would have done something to facilitate that in the last two years. We are paying Brazil to produce oil and build refineries with tax dollars, so that the American people can buy Brazil’s oil. How utterly STUPID is that, when we have our own oil; pay our debt with our tax dollars.
Micmac
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:51pmThis is good politics for the Repubs. Keep it up and you have something to point to. If you can’t dazzle them with brillance, baffle them with detail.
Report Post »azkidd
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:49pmWow, so many of you idiots are so forward thinking and open minded. I guess thats what makes a tea ******. Always wanting to revert back to the 18th or 19th century. Tear down the windmills. Now thats intelligent. Ya, lets drill everywhere and make the oil companies even richer, while gas prices still wont go down even one penny. You people really are Einsteins. I hope all of you morons get the environment you live in destroyed like the people of Louisiana did. When was the last time you heard of a windmill farm destroying an ecosystem?
Report Post »kdzndogdad
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:59pmSo Azkidd, what college do you go to? When was the last time you saw a wind-powered airplane? Or a solar powered train. Hey – ever try to make plastics or pharmaceuticals or fertilizer or any of the other thousands of things that are derived from oil out of recycled tires? In your short little comment you have shown how short-sited you liberal college brats that have never done an honest days work – let alone owned a business – really are.
Report Post »TNT1
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:09pmYour so foward thinking you gotta be an enviro idiot What about the birds the blades kill Einstein not to mention the wate of land to even get 1/16 the energy of oil dahhhh frickin sheep
Report Post »Non-sequitur
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:17pmBecause oil is an infinite resource and there’s only one way to create energy, and that is by burning oil.
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:34pmWhen we actually start to run out of oil the price will NATURALLY rise so high that other means will be discovered or invented, unless the government gets in the way because it has its own plan. Government innovation is the classic oxymoron.
But we haven’t come close to the end of oil, just the end of the really easy oil, the stuff that was begging to come out of the ground. Now we will have to do some convincing, except the ecowackjops won’t let us.
Report Post »the_zazzy
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:49pm@ NON-SEQUITUR
Report Post »Because oil is an infinite resource and there’s only one way to create energy, and that is by burning oil.
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Why don’t you start practicing what you preach…sell your car and attach a windmill to your bike. See how far that gets you. Turn off the lights in your house and rely on your solar panels. Everything you do and consume relies on oil…deal with it. As long as we still have to rely on oil, it might as well be our own, huh?
chalkdust
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 5:15pmSome people just have no real understanding of the need, uses and production of energy. Solar, wind and other renewable sources are fabulous. However, combined they equal a tiny fraction of a drop in the bucket. Work continues to increase the amount of renewables in our energy pie. Matter of fact, we have been pursuing these and other sources for many years, hard to get around the laws of thermal dynamics. Plain and simple, we need oil most for food production. Petro-chemicals and fertilizer are petroleum products that are essential to the production of food.
Report Post »Maybe someone will come up with a viable super clean energy one day or make existing energy more efficient. The argument is basically throwing the baby out with the bath water. No one wants to destroy our habitat and by the same token we don’t want to starve to death. A cheap plentiful source of energy is absolutely necessary for any nation to prosper.
Exxon just released there quarterly profit, it was a whopping 8%. It was billions of dollars but only 8% of there total revenue. Wonder where all the other money went? Lets see, payroll, exploration, shareholder dividends (yes it is a publicly held company), production, taxes and much more i’m sure.
SO BEFORE WE TAKE ADVICE FROM THE GALACTICLY STUPID ON WHERE AND HOW WE GET OUR ENERGY, MAYBE WE SHOULD ASK SOME QUESTIONS. “We have to save the environment and starve half the planet”. An exaggeration to be sure but a real issue when it comes to energy.
fixer
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 5:58pm@non-sequiter..how do you know oil is a non-renewable resource?they are still studying that.I happen to think that the earth is constantly producing oil.do you really think that fossilized dino poop turns into oil?
Report Post »vennoye
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 6:36pmWhy don’t you research your wonderful wind farms……..how much acreage they take up, how easy it is to get them on the grid………Texas started with them in the 70′s…….think we are up to 16% now.
Report Post »VotersOfNY
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:49pmThe Democraps and Obozo won’t let it through. They are trying to destroy this country and are not even trying to hide it. You have to wake up people before it is too late. Obozo, Democraps and public sector unions have to go if we are going to get America back to the people. Tell your friends they HAVE to register and vote to get these marxists out. Do not wait, we must start doing this now.
Report Post »Gail
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:45pmLove it!
Report Post »Carter John
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:44pmThe House unlike the dems are showing that they care about making jobs. Unlike the dems who rely on Mickie D’s and the phony birth/death formula to get “results”.
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:43pmReid will come out and say that drilling will kill Medicare and force old people to eat dogfood.
Report Post »It won’t make it to the Senate floor…
DRINKTEA
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:50pmI agree, it won’t make it to the floor of the Senate becasue Reid might lose this one. Big pressure for drilling at home. Dems on the hot seat will vote for it if in an area where gas is now hitting $4.20 and up. It will take a years to get this oil in to production, we must start now!! But we can’t becasue Obama wants electricity prices to neccessarily skyrocket so his friends can get rich! Carbon Credits is where the money is and his cronies own them! The Liberals with money are the worst example in the history of the world of “Greedy Rich”
Report Post »Grandmadar
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 6:28pm@Drinktea: Yes, but all the liars say otherwise. Trying to start or keep going, I should say, the Class Warfare that is going on. I don’t begrudge someone a fortune if they worked hard to get it. But there are some who comment on this site who seem to not like it when other people have money. They call them greedy. Sounds like jealousy to me. If we all care about the little guy, all we have to do is help them personally…we don’t need to let the Gov. do it.
Report Post »On The Bayou
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:42pmDon`t get to exited, there`s been several judgements by a federal judge here in New Orleans to lift this moritorium. The Bin Ladin Killer has got all these Communist Czars in place and he`s got the EPA to get around any ruling on this that doesn`t go his way. Remember The Bin Ladin Killer is not here to help us he`s here to dystroy us.
Report Post »Grandmadar
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 6:23pmyup, but I sure hope we are wrong on this.
Report Post »wianno94
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:41pmDustyluv…I drove through Texas a few months ago. 95% of the windturbines I saw, were not turning. And yes. they were unsightly. sitting there on their little ridges.
Report Post »Its Gonna Getcha
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:40pmRepublicans need to get stuff like this hammered every single week! There’s a lot of work to do.
Report Post »KENTUCKYREDBONE
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 2:01amYEP! I consider bill’s like these a win,win! If they become law America wins and if not it gets on record who stands where!
Report Post »psst
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:39pmnone is likely to pass the Senate..
Report Post »I wonder if West voted for it. I mean, what’s the big deal, it ain‘t going nowhere because the Senate won’t approve it.
Why would he(West) be bothered w/ minor things rat now.Gotta wait until we have the numbers to pass it. Why waste the time w/ bills going nowhere.
Just wondering .Some here are touting him for prez.
fixer
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 5:53pmwest voted for it . ALLEN WEST/SARAH PALIN in 2012!
Report Post »Currahee
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:53pmWell, now we have a record of who is for making America energy independent and who is not. All those that voted Nay can now be targeted when they are up for re-election. We now have ammo against them. Time to send them to the unemployment lines.
This thing about the Senate Dems calling up the Oil CEO’s to answer some questions is nothing but a show for the “useful idiots” to think they are trying to do something about the gas prices, remember 2005? Same show, but the Oil CEO’s do not influence the cost of oil, it is the FEDERAL RESERVE and Ben Burnake destroying the value of our dollar and therefore making the prices of energy “Necessarily skyrocket” to quote the Potif in Chief about his plan for our energy. It’s nothing more than a Cass Sunstein nudge to quit driving, and while you‘re at it quit eating that food you can’t afford at the grocery store and stop using that harmful AC in your house when it gets to 100F so you can die of heat stroke in your house, I mean these lunatics think the globe is having a fever because there are too many people on the planet and so this would help reduce the surplus population. (That last one was curtosy of my Astronomy Proffesor)
Report Post »Ballgame
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:35pmDrill Baby Drill
Report Post »Nigel2
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:34pmIt’s ok, they will be put on the record for having voted against it. But let’s get that Brazilian oil pumping!!!
Talk about a win win. Oh wait a minute, the only winner there is Brazil.
Report Post »Non-sequitur
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:21pmYou mean American oil companies drilling in Brazil.
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:28pmWhich “American owned” oil company? Do you mean Petrobras, the BRAZILIAN owned oil company.
Report Post »the_zazzy
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:43pmNON-SENSICAL falls for all the liberal postering and lying. It’s the big bad American oil companies who make gas prices high, huh? Let’s put them on trial again. Nasty, naughty, American capitalism!
Report Post »TNT1
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:32pmThey are all just playing games.They all have the same agenda lie lie lie
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:31pmGood, now if they just can get it passed the Senate and the President; then it would become a good matter for the nation.
Report Post »beckwill
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:40pmNow Snow, do you honestly think this President actually wants to do anything that would be truly good for the nation?
Report Post »bertdorf3
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:58pmYeah he can veto, but then the Senate gets voted out… then the President gets voted out… start the ball rolling NOW!
Report Post »OlefromMN
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 5:42pmLet’s say it gets passed by the Senate and signed by the POTUS. Obama will just have the EPA tie up the permit process.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 11:26pmThe House controls the $$ Defund the EPA!
Report Post »Creestof
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:31pmWoot! Now let’s hope it was not all a waste of time or a lesson in futility.
Report Post »and to the republic
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:47pmprobably is cause the senate will not pass it nor will BHO sign it….but it gets a lot of people on record voting against it so that is a start….
Report Post »Vickie Dhaene
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:55pmBut, their voting record is solidified and can bring all the VETOES up during campaign for 2012.
Report Post »BlueStrat
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:16pm@ Vicky
Sorry, no. There will be no Senate vote allowed. Harry Reid would squeeze the juices out of his own mother to run his car before he’d allow anything like this up for a vote. Thanks GOP for backing a RINO in AZ rather than the TEA Party candidate, thus guaranteeing Reid’s re-election.
We need to clean house on BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE!!
The GOP “old guard” has got to GO!!
Report Post »hucksqr
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:29pmDrill baby drill!
Report Post »Juan Gault
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:44pmAbout time to bring some action to our ignored natural resources. Start on both coasts,to take the already proven oil existing,by immediately pumping the wells that are capped off.Ready to be pumped into ships and taken to refiners. Other known reserves such as Shell’s mega deposit in Northern Alaska, begin drilling tomorrow. Paperwork has been done, redone, and done again. Drill baby drill, and do it NOW!! If not take the risk, of being voted out during next election.
Report Post »avenger
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:56pmtime to wake up people..the bastards in the white house will not be happy till gasoline is at $12.. and you are on your knees.gold,guns and lots of ammo.
Report Post »georgiaman
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:29pmDrill, baby DRILL!
Report Post »and to the republic
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:32pmthat is a perfect thread to start the discussion….Maybe this time, we will…..
Report Post »jeffyfreezone
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:32pmObama will find a way to throw a wrench in the gears.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:37pmI am surrounded by windmills here in West Texas. I hate looking at them. I am already sick of the greenies pushing their agenda on us. You want that crap, build it in your back yard with your own damn money and stop using my money to build them.
There is enough oil and natural gas for rhis Nation to be self sufficient but iiots won;t let us drill. I cant wait for the day that we take a cutting torch to theses metal monsters and drill baby drill!!!
Report Post »chirodoc007
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:37pmWhether they get these things past Obama or not these are the kind of Bills that the House needs to continue to pass. The Hell with the debt ceiling, if the Repubs can throw a bunch of positive bills in the pipeline thay can then use the debt ceiling issue to link the bills together and pass or reject everything as a single issue.
Report Post »TNT1
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:38pmThey are all just playing games.They all have the same agenda lie lie lie get reelected and lie some more.Our government officials are nothing but a joke who cover each others asses
Report Post »OneRepublic4us
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:39pmI just pray that people remember when the elections roll around people realize that the price of gas went down and jobs were created IN SPITE OF OBAMA, not because of him!!!
Report Post »ReddenBlack
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:44pmThis is foolish. Do they not know President Obama can just veto any bill they put in front of him? If he doesn’t want to life the moratorium, (and HE SHOULDN’T!!!) he doesn’t have to. Why don’t you people try and have a little respect for the office of the presiden.
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:49pmThese votes are important because it lets us know where our representatives stand on the issues.
Report Post »TheGreyPiper
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:50pmWhy doesn’t the president have a little respect for the American people?
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:51pmI guess it will depend upon the memory of the sheeple. If this doesn’t pass, and the price of gas goes up even higher, will they remember who caused it? Are they smart enough, can they turn their heads from reality TV long enough to notice?
Report Post »True American66
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:55pmHEY BLAZE…..break down the vote for us….who voted for it and WHO voted against it!
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:58pmLet’s see Obamam and the senate dems defend this moratorium publicly. There are a lot of Dems in the Senate who won’t like the heat.
Report Post »AzDebi
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:59pm@azkidd:
Report Post »“Wow, so many of you idiots are so forward thinking and open minded. I guess thats what makes a tea ******. Always wanting to revert back to the 18th or 19th century. Tear down the windmills. Now thats intelligent. Ya, lets drill everywhere and make the oil companies even richer, while gas prices still wont go down even one penny…”
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Sorry AzKidd…now YOU are showing a lack of intelligence! 95% of all of the oil reserves IN THE WORLD are OWNED by GOVERNMENTS!!! That means that you are complaining about 5% who own the balance and who are IN BUSINESS TO MAKE A PROFIT! You must have voted for the idiot in the WH…how sad!
booger71
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:02pmI was a consultant in the oil business from 1978-1986.
Report Post »1. Do not rely on what the US Geologic Survey estimates where and how much domestic production we have. They consistently downplay the US reserves, many are liberal environmentalists, and their science is sketchy.
2. You can’t prove oil and gas fields until they are drilled. It costs millions of dollars in geophysical testing before the 1st well is drilled, and they won’t spend a dime in testing until the oil companies have leases in hand.
JD Carp
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:05pmAs a fellow Georgian I concur. If we can get it through the senate and that communist in the White House will sign it the price of fuel will drop instantaneously because the Saudis do NOT want us to have our own resources, it would put them out of business. Their plan will be to make oil so cheap it isn’t worth drilling here. Then they will stick t to us again!
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:08pmDon’t forget FL!!!!! I am sure the tourists will not object to platforms off the coast if they don’t have to pay $5.00/gal (or more) to drive to FL.
Report Post »Non-sequitur
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:15pm“I’m a big babby and am against clean, infinite, cheap energy for aesthetic reasons and because LIBRULS like it!” -Dustyluv
Report Post »the_zazzy
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:21pmLiberal philosophy in a nut-shell:
1) Don’t use your own natural resources…rely on hostile foreign countries for it.
2) Tax the incentive out of the rich job creators, thus sending jobs overseas.
3) Abort your babies.
4) Limit your own country’s productivity by restricting “harmful emissions.”
5) Don’t allow law-abiding citizens to possess firearms.
6) Cut our national defense down to nothing.
7) Allow anyone in the country who wants in regardless of their motive for being here.
8) Borrow and spend. Borrow and spend. Then, borrow and spend some more.
9) Teach that the United States of America is an oppressor rather than a liberator.
10) Encourage unions, who promote laziness and entitlements.
Did I leave anything out? How do you spell SELF-DESTRUCTION: L-I-B-E-R-A-L.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:24pmKeep passing these bills .. let the Dems have to stop them in the Senate or with the President .. make them show that they are not on the side of the American PEOPLE!
TEA!
Report Post »avenger
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:27pmyou bet..drill more and then some more… here is the reason why ! http://ranken-energy.com/products%20from%20petroleum.htm
Report Post »JoeBtfsplk
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:29pmNever pass Senate!
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:30pm.
Report Post »It’s theater.
The GOP knows Obama‘s henchmen won’t issue permits.
banjarmon
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:32pmPalin said it best… DRILL BABY DRILL!
Report Post »Fair trade…one bushel of corn or wheat for one barrel of OIL!! If they don’t like it let them eat OIL!
CatB
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:41pmI can’t find the breakdown of the vote yet … but it should be posted on house.gov later or tomorrow …. you can check it to see how your Rep votes.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:46pmLINK TO VOTES … find out how your REP VOTED HERE!
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/roll320.xml
DemocRATS in Italics …
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:46pmAt least the Dems and WH will be blamed for rising gas prices and no additional jobs.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:49pmMY REPUBLICAN REP VOTED AGAINST IT … I guess he thinks all of FL is against JOBS and tourism .. if people can’t afford gasoline or airline tickets they can afford how can they VACATION!
Off to write Connie Mack (R-FL) a letter .. of disgust!
Report Post »jhaydeng
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:49pmWon’t happen until Conservatives get the WH and Senate!
Report Post »Patrick in AZ
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:52pmWhile Obama originally supported expanding oil and gas exploration, the Gulf oil disaster changed his course.
Report Post »———————-
Baloney – you give the man too much benefit of the doubt. The truth is he never supported expanding drilling or exploration, he just simply said that he did.
Islesfordian
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:53pmNon-sequitur is well named, because there isn’t any rational connection between his statements and actual facts.
Report Post »Slick Willie
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:59pmOK here is the vote tally:
FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 320
(Republicans in roman; Democrats in italic; Independents underlined)
H R 1231 RECORDED VOTE 12-May-2011 2:26 PM
QUESTION: On Passage
BILL TITLE: Reversing President Obama’s Offshore Moratorium Act
Ayes Noes PRES NV
Republican 222 9 8
Democratic 21 170 1
Independent
TOTALS 243 179 9
—- AYES 243 —
Adams
Report Post »Aderholt
Akin
Alexander
Altmire
Amash
Austria
Bachmann
Bachus
Barletta
Barrow
Bartlett
Barton (TX)
Bass (NH)
Benishek
Berg
Biggert
Bilirakis
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Bonner
Bono Mack
Boren
Boswell
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Brooks
Broun (GA)
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Carladet
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 5:06pmHere’s a link to see who voted on the bills.
Just glanced at it and 2 Republicans voted against one of them.
http://www.opencongress.org/vote/2011/h/298
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 5:41pmCATB, I hope you noticed that Mack voted FOR it. Only two Republicans voted against. I don’t know either of them and hope never to hear their names again.
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 5:44pmNever mind CATB, I was looking at HR 1230, not 1231
Report Post »hifi74
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 5:52pmReddenBlack
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:44pm
This is foolish. Do they not know President Obama can just veto any bill they put in front of him? If he doesn’t want to life the moratorium, (and HE SHOULDN’T!!!) he doesn’t have to. Why don’t you people try and have a little respect for the office of the presiden.
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I have a better idea, how about the President and his administration have a little respect for his employers….
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 6:04pmReddenback – there isn’t anything to respect about this president. He is ruining our Republic.
Report Post »MiketheTrucker
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 6:12pmWhile I applaud the effort, we all know very well that the dictator in chief will never sign them.
Sadly, with the Islamic “takeover” of the middle east, which will inevitably end up with the U.S. being “cut off” from middle east oil supplies at some point in the future because of their hatred for us, we are approaching the midnight hour on drilling our own oil.
We’ll see how it plays out.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 6:17pmFor those not familiar with http://www.gradegov.com, it is owned by Hon Elizabeth B. Letchworth, the first and only woman to serve as the US Senate Secretary for the Majority and Minority for the Republicans. It is one way to grade and communicate with members of Congress in a real and substitutive way. It is based in Ocala FL. Please check it out and let your Congressman/woman know what you think.
Report Post »sbeejustsaying
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 6:19pmWith all three bills unlikely to pass the Senate, they will probably fall legislatively flat. That said, their proposal and passage in the House is a significant development in the energy independence dialogue.
Am I missing something?
Report Post »Koffshore
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 6:25pmI am currently a Production Supervisor on the Offshore Platform pictured. We are trying to get permits to install replacement pipelines between platforms to increase our production. The maze of agencies and hoops we have to jump through just to accomplish this is unbelievable! The government regulation is absolutely hindering our ability to make more oil and it is not getting better! Tim Cox with GOOOH has the right idea–clean house!!!
Report Post »dennybug
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 7:30pmI’m down here in LA and what this admin. did to the folks down here is unimaginable. Obama with his moritoriums and regulaions we’re losing so many platforms to other countries it pathedic. Not to mention the hearing they having on big oil today,who do they acctually think will pay for the susadaries if the gov. stiops?? They’re all about promting their green agenda!!
Report Post »right-wing-waco
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 7:52pm@dennybug
You have to understand the Commie Socialist agenda. This government does not want America to florish or even be productive. The communists in the white house wants America to be dependent on the dictators of the world. He needs unemployment to spread his socialism and dependence on him and his administration. It‘s too bad the lefties can’t see this. If we don’t elect people that are pro-America and pro-Constitution this next election, we are doomed.
You libs should read up on the past commie regimes and learn what communists do when they are done using you. That is why you are known as “useful idiots”. What is really disturbing is that this commie, socialist propaganda is being taught to your 6 year old in the public schools. (Public schools are part of the 10 planks of the communist manifesto)
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:48pmWe all know that for YEARS the progressives have lusted for $5 a gallon gas. We now approach that figure and they still want it go higher! The Senate is chocker block full of progressives in both parties (ex: John McCain).
Our “representative” government is a ‘ruling’ oligarchy. They DO NOT CARE about ANY THING except your vote.
YOU hold the keys to passing these measures. Pressure from voters is the ONLY way.
Report Post »PatriotsLikeMe
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:36pmYeah baby, that‘s what I’m talkin’ about!!
Report Post »SheriS
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:50pmThis is great but will the Senate pass it and I‘m betting the Robot Prez won’t sign it! This man will do anything to stop the drilling! He thinks we should be driving the crappy Volt which I have heard nothing good about! People will be driving along and suddenly the car stops running and they have to hope and pray they can get to the side of the road. I couldn‘t have one as I couldn’t get to my church when I have to and get back home! What a piece of garbage this is turning out to be for the tons of our tax money paid for thanks to the Robot!
Report Post »dr_funk
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 12:41amIt won’t even make it out of the Senate. Obama and Reid have the legislative process on lockdown…
Report Post »right-wing-waco
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 12:56am@ dr_funk
But that is ok. When we are paying 5.00 – 7.00 a gallon and the libs are getting angry we can tell them who caused it. Not drilling here in national suicide. It will cause higher prices for everything, as well as higher unemployment and that will cause more foreclosures and also cause government to give out more welfare. That means more direct control of more Americans lives.
The Commie in the white house must go.
Report Post »MattO
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 8:06am“With all three bills unlikely to pass the Senate, they will probably fall legislatively flat.”
So the effort into this bill was all for nothing, the House win doesn‘t count and we still can’t drill? So now what? Is this political posturing?
Report Post »Wolf
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 8:36amAMEN! Drill! Drill! Drill! It’s about time America became energy independant and well past time the CONsgress acted like Americans instead of takeing the side of tree hugging green weenie enviro wack-jobs that want to see America fall.
Report Post »weeblewacker1
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 10:36amjust goes to show you once again,the stupidity of the right.thinking that more drilling is going to lower the cost of gas.even the TOP 3 oil company c.e.o.’s said: “more drilling will not bring down the price of gas” so once more, complete b.s.from the rethugs.and yet people still believe what ever they say!!
Report Post »now,in case you had your eyes and ears closed for the past 6 months, it is the RICH,GREEDY, speculators that are driving the price up. sorry for stating the facts again,i know how much you hate to hear them.
right-wing-waco
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 11:04am@weeblewacker1
Report Post »I think you are wrong and that drilling here will bring down the price… BUT lets just say you are correct for the argument. By drilling here the foreign dictators can’t cut us off. As for speculators, if your retirement fund has oil in its portfolio, YOU are speculating too. By drilling here, there will be less speculating on if there will be an oil supply in the future. If you had a clean legal water well in your back yard would you still buy water from the city? I don’t think so. It’s time to stop being dependent on foreigners for our lives.
right-wing-waco
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 11:14am@weeblewacker
Report Post »Benefit #2 of drilling. It will put thousands of workers back to work at high wages. They will be paying taxes and not be sucking off the taxpayers. Is it possible that BHO does not want Americas to be free of the dictators of the world or increase employment here in America?