US Sen. Mary L. Landrieu (D-Louisiana) said Thursday that she will block the nomination of Jack Lew to be the Obama administration's director of the Office of Management and Budget until the moratorium on deepwater oil and gas drilling is lifted or significantly modified

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Some economists have estimated that more than 46,000 jobs could be lost as a result of a six-month stoppage of offshore drilling, and the Obama administration itself has estimated that as many as 12,000 workers could be laid off as a result of this "arbitrary" ban on oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico.“In repeated meetings and correspondence with Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Director Michael Bromwich, I have underscored how damaging this moratorium is to Louisiana, the Gulf Coast, and the nation. Unfortunately, I have seen no measurable progress,” Landrieu said.