House GOP calls for offshore drilling vote, end to vacation
                   
usatoday.com     Aug 8, 2008            

By Pamela Brogan, Gannett News Service WASHINGTON — Rep. Roy Blunt asked House Democrats on Thursday to join Republicans in urging House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to reconvene the House and hold votes on proposals aimed at increasing domestic oil production. House Republicans have been pressuring Pelosi to call lawmakers back into session since the House recessed Aug. 1 and allow votes on bills that would lift the ban in coastal waters that are now off-limits to drilling. In a letter Thursday to House lawmakers, Blunt, the No. 2 House Republican, and other Republicans, said the Democratic leadership is ignoring "this crisis." "If you agree that Congress should not be taking a five-week vacation until we address the energy crisis, will you join us in publicly calling on Speaker Pelosi to reconvene the House and allow a vote on... [read full story]                    


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Barack Obama’s Vision: less meritocracy, more safety nets; how much Marxism does the country want?

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