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iderably brighter. It nate now look cons Se al the er fed the , re or mo For the past decade revenues from oil es expected federal lud r inc the ra ce an dr hin a t government has been ed to bring in abou stic leases in ANWR, estimat me do ’s ica er Am nding than a help in expa a provision to lift billion dollars, and .7 $2 et dg bu ed vis a re energy supply. With drilling.ANWR’s current restrictions on in the cts pe os pr s R’ W AN resolution in Senate,
m the ip these provisions fro opponents tried to str ednesday. at 51-49 vote on W budget but failed in d, that cannot be filibustere Because the budget ole ce. A vote on the wh was their final chan later in the week. budget could come
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s her North Slope area as production from ot four Drilling backers fell declined significantly. the required 60 votes votes shor t of getting se filibuster of the defen to avoid a threatened
drilling issue. Senate measure over the oil d to withdraw the leaders were expecte be reworked without legislation so it could The vote was 56-44. the refuge language.
Opening ANWR government’s fir energy measure The Senate wou use this opportu ANWR in its bud It underscores wh saying all along: o would do next to America’s energy going to be relian reliant, on foreign Justin Tatham, U.S. Public Interest Research Group active in protecting the refuge from development.
would be the rst major proin many years. uld be wise to unity to include dget. hat we’ve been oil drilling o nothing to meet needs. We’re still nt, if not more n sources of oil. Ben Lieberman, Senior Policy Analyst in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage.
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