Reuters: Senate leaders strike deal on offshore drilling

[Eugene]

Senate leaders strike deal on offshore drilling
Wed Jul 12, 2006 12:43pm ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican leaders in the U.S. Senate have struck a deal
with key party members including Sen. Mel Martinez of Florida that would allow
the chamber to vote on opening the eastern Gulf of Mexico to energy exploration,
Senate aides said on Wednesday.

Sen. Pete Domenici, chairman of the Senate Energy Committee, is pressing for a
vote this month on a plan that would develop the Outer Continental Shelf off Florida,
including a controversial area known as "Lease Sale 181."

Domenici and Martinez met with Majority Leader Bill Frist on Tuesday, and have struck
a deal that will allow the legislation to proceed to a vote in coming days, aides said
on condition of anonymity.

Lawmakers including Frist and Domenici are expected to announce the deal later
Wednesday, aides said.

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[Roland99]

1. Good thing the One-Party Rule gubment is curing our addiction to oil.

[Up2Late]

2. Well that's a stupid headline, they left out the word Repulican...,

...that headline makes it sound like Harry Reid was in on the deal, silly me.

Good to see the the ReThuglican Senators from two fully land locked states pressuring the a Senator with one of the longest coastline to deal.:mad: