House Opens Way for Oil Drilling in Artic (ANWR)

House Opens Way for Oil Drilling in Artic

By JIM ABRAMS, Associated Press Writer 22 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - House lawmakers opened the way for oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as one of their last acts of an all-night session Monday bringing their legislative year to a close.

The ANWR provision was attached to a major defense bill, forcing many opponents of oil and gas exploration in the barren northern Alaska range to vote for it. The bill, passed 308-106, also included money for hurricane relief and bird flu preventive measures.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051219/ap_on_go_co/congress_rdp



Swell, and much like 51% = Landslide, a 1% reduction in spending on all non-veteran affairs related discretionary programs = a return to fiscal responsibility. :eyes:

Lose lose suituation. GOP majority rules the day.

The House met until past midnight. The LA Times reports on what they were up to:



Isn't it a questionable manuever to sneak such controversial partisan baggage as ANWR drilling into a bill intended for funding the troops? Said Frist: "Obviously, I wouldn't be doing this if I didn't think I had the votes."

The LAT says that the Senate is expected to vote on the drilling measure this week.

The military spending bill included $29 billion for CORPORATIONS TO PROFIT FROM the hurricane-stricken Gulf Coast — more than Bush sought — and $3.8 billion to CORPORATIONS WHO ARE ALSO GOP DONORS TO prepare for a flu outbreak — less than the White House wanted. The military spending bill also includes an across-the-board spending cut in most federal programs, WHICH WILL MEAN MORE CUTS THAN GOOD FOR ORDINARY CITIZENS IN SPECIAL ALASKAN PORK LEGISLATION designed to offset the new hurricane relief.

This is just F-IN incredible

Cut our programs and send the money to Iraq.........way to go

F our own people

until after midnight and then sneak this crap through.

Once upon a time they wouldn't dare to have done this. Now it's SOP (standard operating procedure).

I watch so many on Cspan. They do it all the time. Midnight in US Noon for me. They always stick their pet money spinner on important bill that no reprsentative can vote no on.

Total corrupted way to get nasty laws through. Crappy real crapy. Vote again bill Soldiers in Iraq get screwed. Vote for it get kill by grassroots. Tough choices.

signed of on the conference bill. both dems and repugs. NOW they inserted.

here and my front yard is green. when the hell are these nazi fucks going to care about anything but money? when the fucking ocean is up to their lower lips. May all who voted for this burn in hell. Fuck you all to hell.

I still think capitalists should have a little control, and I am a capitalist:patriot:

I hope it was a good one. :sarcasm:

sick. just sick.

into a "vote against the troops"

I hope to hell that this gets caught up in the Senate!

Shame on the Democrats for caving into the GOP tactics in order to push this through on the very last days before the recess and making it an issue "against the troops"

For shame, Congress, for shame!

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/109/house/1/votes/669/

on edit: Click on party to see list of names.

Will hopefully be a few that have to be re-elected 06 and will be taken out!
I may just change to Green or something other than the the 2 major, "rotten to the core" political parties.

Thomas Allen, Robert Berry, Jim Davis, Bob Etheridge, Harold Ford, Rubén Hinojosa, Darlene Hooley, Ron Kind, Carolyn McCarthy, Mike McIntyre, Bill Pascrell, Brad Sherman, Vic Snyder, Julia Carson, Robert Brady, Shelley Berkley, Michael Capuano, Joseph Crowley, Charles Gonzalez, John Larson, Dennis Moore, William Clay, Susan Davis, G.K. Butterfield, Steve Israel, James Langevin, Rick Larsen, Jim Matheson, Mike Ross, Adam Schiff, Stephen Lynch, Timothy Bishop, Dennis Cardoza, Artur Davis, Lincoln Davis, Jim Marshall, Kendrick Meek, Brad Miller, Dutch Ruppersberger, Tim Ryan, David Scott, Ben Chandler, John Barrow, Melissa Bean, Dan Boren, Russ Carnahan, Emanuel Cleaver, Jim Costa, Henry Cuellar, Al Green, Brian Higgins, Daniel Lipinski, Charles Melancon, John Salazar, Allyson Schwartz, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Doris Matsui, Neil Abercrombie, Howard Berman, Sanford Bishop, Rick Boucher, Corrine Brown, Sherrod Brown, James Clyburn, Jerry Costello, Bud Cramer, Peter DeFazio, Rosa DeLauro, Norman Dicks, Chet Edwards, Lane Evans, Allen Boyd, Gene Green, Tim Holden, Steny Hoyer, William Jefferson, Paul Kanjorski, Marcy Kaptur, Tom Lantos, Sander Levin, Nita Lowey, Stephanie Herseth, Martin Meehan, Alan Mollohan, James Moran, John Murtha, Richard Neal, Solomon Ortiz, Nancy Pelosi, Collin Peterson, Earl Pomeroy, David Price, Nick Rahall, Bart Gordon, Ike Skelton, John Spratt, Ted Strickland, John Tanner, Gene Taylor, Bennie Thompson, Peter Visclosky, Al Wynn, Michael Doyle, Chaka Fattah, Sheila Jackson-Lee, Patrick Kennedy

House Unlocks ANWR Energy Supplies
20-year debate nears historic conclusion
December 19, 2005
http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/Press/press.htm

Washington, DC - Today the House passed legislation authorizing safe energy production in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) by a vote of 308-106 as part of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act. Energy development will take place on just 2000 acres of ANWR's 1.5 million acre coastal plain, under the strongest environmental safeguards in the world.

"This vote represents the largest potential increase of American energy supplies - and the biggest step toward energy independence - Congress has approved since 1973 when it passed the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Act," said Resources Committee Chairman Richard W. Pombo (R-CA). "When the Senate passes this bill, a nearly 20-year debate will be brought to a close and we will finally get to the business of meeting our energy demands with more American supplies. When it comes to our economy, our national security and families facing skyrocketing energy prices, this is unquestionably the right thing to do."

In addition to increasing U.S. energy security and independence, ANWR energy production will create new federal revenues to cut the federal deficit, to fund recovery efforts in Gulf Coast states devastated by recent hurricanes and to provide home heating assistance to low-income families.

"Energy production in ANWR should also dispel, once and for all, the myth that we can only develop America's energy resources at the expense of our environment," Pombo continued. "Innovative engineering and advanced 21st century technology make energy production and environmental protection go hand-in-hand in the United States. Today the House embraced that fact. We can, we must and we will have both in ANWR."

This is also a historic vote for the Inupiat Eskimo people of Alaska, who have inhabited ANWR's northern slope for generations, long before Congress claimed it as a wildlife refuge. This legislation will finally allow them to produce energy on the lands they were given as part of their aboriginal settlement with the U.S. government and use the proceeds to provide themselves a better quality of life.
http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/issues/emr/report/history.htm#eskimo

ANWR Facts & Figures:

The mean estimate of recoverable oil from ANWR's northern coastal plain is 10.4 billion barrels.
At today's energy prices, recovering this massive supply represents a $650 Billion investment in American energy, American jobs and strong economic growth.
Experts estimate that safe energy development in ANWR will lead to the creation of 250,000 to 1 million good jobs in America. That is why ANWR-energy is supported by American labor organizations such as the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the International Union of Operating Engineers, the Laborers International Union of North America, the AFL-CIO -- Building Trades Department, the United Association of Plumbers and Pipefitters, the Seafarers International Union and the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America.
America's total proven energy reserves stand at 21 billion barrels. That means ANWR's 10.4 billion barrels will increase the total U.S. proven reserves by nearly 50 percent.
At peak production, ANWR could deliver the nation as much as 1.5 million barrels of oil per day. That is an amount equal the entire world's daily excess supply, the daily American production we lost in the Gulf due to the recent hurricanes and roughly the amount we import from Saudi Arabia every day.
Read about the tremendous direct and indirect benefits of safe energy production on just 2000 acres of ANWR's northern coastal plain.


The Complete Case for ANWR Energy

http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/issues/emr/anwrrpt.htm

To call - not a bad idea since this now at a point of urgency - you can find you senators' phone numbers here:
http://senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

To write - this is from True Majority - just filling in your info will get the email to your own senators. BTW if you want privacy you don't have to put in your street number -- I never do.
http://action.truemajority.org/campaign/stopthedrilling?rk=tp%5fjWun1szvwE

JIM ABRAMS. House Opens Way for Oil Drilling in Arctic: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=1420131

House lawmakers opened the way for oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as one of their last acts of an all-night session Monday bringing their legislative year to a close.
The House also narrowly passed a plan to cut deficits by almost $40 billion over five years in legislation hailed by GOP conservatives as a sign their party was returning to fiscal discipline and assailed by Democrats as victimizing medical and education programs that help the poor.

The ANWR provision was attached to a major defense bill, forcing many opponents of oil and gas exploration in the barren northern Alaska range to vote for it. The bill, passed 308-106, also included money for hurricane relief and bird flu preventive measures.