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Quote by: bishop i'm kind of glad this failed... i abhor this tactic of slapping failed legislation into other spending bills. all of this because the head of the appropriations committee wants his little pet project. |
However; it would be kind of nice to bring a million or so barrels of oil into the US from our wells. Otherwise we buy the stuff and give the money to the Arabs. It'd also be nice to provide well paying jobs to the 150 or so people who live around ANWR. Furthermore there are some who say that there is a lot more oil under ANWR that the anti-drill side says there is.
This defeat of the ANWR drilling is a travisty; it's a shame. But I agree that the tactic of tacking bills onto other bills is underhanded. Someone said that one doesn't want to watch sausage or laws being made. That's generally true.
