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by Senor Unoball
The U.S. Senate continues to be a bastion of common sense regarding foolhardy proposals to drill-baby-drill everywhere in sight.
Today, the Senate voted 41 yes, 57 no, on a proposal that would have opened up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. The vote was on a measure that needed 60 votes to avoid filibuster.
In the same vote, the Senate rejected construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.
The proposals were amendments to the Transportation Bill under debate.
According to the Anchorage Daily News:
Adrian Herrera, who is paid by the state of Alaska to lobby Congress to open ANWR, has called the proposal a "hail Mary" measure that includes lots of things for senators to find fault with.
Three Democrats voted for the proposal: Mark Begich of Alaska, Claire McCaskill of Missouri and Joe Manchin of West Virgina.
Very surprised that Mary Landrieu did not vote in favor, actually, as she is among the most pro-oil Senators we have.
Republicans voting against were Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine; Scott Brown of Massachusetts; Bob Corker of Tennessee; Jim DeMint of South Carolina; Marco Rubio of Florida; and Mike Lee of Utah.
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/13/1074109/-Breaking-ANWR-Drilling-Rejected-Again-
Roll Call: http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=112&session=2&vote=00038
Updated to add:
By Sarah Parsons
Its ba-aack the Keystone XL pipeline, that is. The Senate is set to vote tomorrow on an amendment created by Big Oil wearing a Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) mask. The amendment would revive everyones favorite pipeline and, while it was at it, greenlight all the other oil-hungry environmental ruination that Republicans go in for.
The Senate defeated Keystone yet again last week, but Sen. Roberts included the pipeline in amendment #1826 of the Senate transportation bill (S. 1813). And thats not the only Big Oil party favor he stuck in this grab bag of evil:
In fact, Roberts amendment would double Americas oil drilling, a feat achieved by opening up new areas off the Atlantic and California coasts and in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 1.5 million acres of pristine land that nearly 200 species of wildlife call home. Millions of acres in the West would throw their doors open to oil shale development, an environmentally damaging and extremely energy-intensive process. Oh, and that dang Keystone XL pipeline would get the go-ahead without even requiring an environmental review.
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http://grist.org/list/meet-the-worst-senate-amendment-that-ever-lived/
abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,899 posts)I am so very pleased.
I wonder what motivated all those "no" votes?
Mr.Turnip
(645 posts)Lee and DeMint, voting in sensical way on anything???
spanone
(136,008 posts)Proud Liberal Dem
(24,470 posts)are what I like to call (Republican) "Zombie Policies" because no matter how bad these kind of proposals are (or probably will be) for this country and no matter how badly it polls or how unlikely it is going to be helpful for our country, they keep getting re-introduced over and over again. Sometimes, some of them even get approved eventually. I wish somebody could just put a stake through them once and for all!
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