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Congress warms to new oil drilling

By H. JOSEF HEBERT, Associated Press Writer Mon Sep 8, 7:35 PM ET
WASHINGTON – Senate Democrats promised a series of votes next week on offshore oil drilling as Republicans agreed Monday to let the Senate proceed on a defense bill that had been bottled up because of partisan disputes over the country’s energy priorities.
Majority Leader [...]

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Obama’s off-shore drilling change of course

On Thursday, July 31st, Barack Obama collected more than $1.5 million in campaign funding.
Houston backers shell out for Obama
By ALAN BERNSTEIN Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle
Aug. 1, 2008, 12:43AM
Barack Obama collected more than $1.5 million in campaign funding Thursday night in two Houston neighborhoods built by oil and natural gas profits while telling his audiences that [...]

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The high price of gas and how we are being played

President Bush is trying to lead us to believe that the way to get the price of oil and thus gasoline down is for the U.S. to lift the off-shore ban on drilling.
In a Rose Garden appearance, the president challenged Democrats to drop their “obstruction” of proposals to expand domestic energy production. “Americans will [...]

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