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US House approves Democratic leadership’s energy bill

09/22/2008
US House members passed an energy bill by 236 to 189 votes on Sept. 16 which Democrats called a true compromise and Republicans labeled a travesty.HR 6899 came to a vote about 24 hours after it was introduced following some three hours of debate around 9:30 p.m. EDT. Republicans charged that it was designed primarily to give Democrats political cover in their re-election bids by letting them say they voted to open more of the US Outer Continental Shelf to oil and gas leasing.That claim is false because the measure would permanently ban leasing up to 50 miles offshore where it does not exist already, and allow leasing from 50 to 100 miles offshore only when a coastal state requests it, GOP...
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