Senate GOP Ready to Push Artic Oil Measure

[davidinalameda]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=512&ncid=703&e=8&u=/ap/20050302/ap_on_go_co/arctic_oil

The first big environmental showdown of the new Congress is expected to come within weeks as the Senate plans to use a budget measure to try to open an Alaskan wildlife refuge to oil development, hoping to sidestep strong Democratic opposition


Republican leaders have been stymied for years in their effort to allow oil development on a 1.5 million-acre coastal strip of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge because they have been unable to muster the 60 votes needed to overcome a Democratic-led filibuster.


But a maneuver to avoid the filibuster is likely to come to a head in the next three weeks. The House has repeatedly passed measures to allow drilling in ANWR, as the refuge is called, only to see the legislation stalled in the Senate.

[beam me up scottie]

1. I just heard this on NPR.

The report didn't go into detail, what can the dems do if the repukes do include it in the budget?

[RobertSeattle]

2. Note the Luntzification: "Oil Development" instead of "Oil Drilling"

Environment proponents should never refer to it as "An-whar" - refer to it by its full name "Arctic National Wildlife Refuge".