House Speaker Will Allow September Vote on Offshore Drilling, But Republicans Are Not Impressed

摘要

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Catif.) used the Democratic radio address last weekend to announce that -contrary to her plans before the recess - the House of Representatives will consider expanded offshore drilling as part of a broad energy bill when lawmakers return in September. A moratorium on drilling off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and Florida's Gulf Coast has been renewed annually since the 1980s. Pelosi is a long-time opponent of drilling off the coast of California, in particular. The address was given on August 16.