From Congress Daily
House Centrists Look To Start Own GangA group of House lawmakers are looking to replicate an effort among Senate centrists by bypassing their party leaders and putting together a compromise plan to address gas prices.
Reps. Neil Abercrombie, D-Hawaii, and John Peterson, R-Pa., are gathering a group of rank-and-file lawmakers — preferably split evenly between the two parties — for a meeting Monday in the hopes of quickly piecing together a legislative package. They plan to formally announce the group’s formation Tuesday.
“There is an effort that’s going on among members to try to … put together something that makes sense and is balanced,†Natural Resources Energy Subcommittee Chairman Jim Costa, D-Calif., said.
Costa was one of 19 Democrats, predominately from oil and gas producing districts, who voted against a “use-it-or-lose it†plan sponsored by Democratic leaders shortly before the Independence Day recess.
House Democratic leaders as early as next week intend to bring that plan up again as part of a larger package emphasizing more production in areas where it is allowed to counter repeated calls from GOP leaders to expand access to new areas.
What a bunch of dumbasses. If there were sufficient oil reserves in places where drilling already allowed, and it was economically viable to extract that oil, we’d already be doing just that.
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My business is oil related and I am generally for more drilling and I also support Obama this time around. He is against any drilling to “save a few pennies a gallon” and he is right up to a point. The prices are really world wide prices and so why allow drilling? My products go higher and higher and I make a good living off of high prices and make next to nothing when prices are low. Vote your pocketbock I always say. David H. Werdine Michigan City, IN