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RNC: Drill, baby, drill

Posted on September 04, 2008

By Kate SheppardHouse Democrats are planning to co-opt the idea of an all of the above energy policy that the Republican congressional leadership has been pushing, offering them a bill that includes an expansion of offshore drilling, coupled with a renewable electricity mandate, energy-efficiency standards for buildings, and provisions to raise taxes on the oil industry. This is essentially the Democrats attempting to call Republicans' bluff on energy policy by getting them to vote against a bill that lumps drilling in with the energy measures they want. Meanwhile, House Republicans are ...

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