CongressNow: ‘Oil Patch’ Democrats Push Drilling Plan
- By Louis Jacobson
- CongressNow Staff
- Aug. 28, 2008, Midnight
No one knows yet how the contentious question of offshore drilling will be addressed when the 110th Congress returns to work in September. But during this summer of record-high gasoline prices, key Democrats — especially Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) and presumptive presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) — have begun to open the door to expanding domestic drilling, an approach that until recently was heretical within Democratic circles because of decades of strong opposition by environmentalists.
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