2008-09-07
GOP to Press Lifting Offshore Drilling Ban this Month. By James Rosen, McClatchy Newspapers, September 7, 2008. "When Congress returns this week from its summer break, the calendar likely will force Democratic leaders to do what Republican lawmakers have so far failed to make them do -- vote on lifting the 1982 ban on expanded offshore oil and natural gas drilling. The congressional drilling moratorium, first enacted by a Democratic-controlled House and a Republican-ruled Senate under President Reagan, must be renewed each year by Sept. 30 in order to stay in effect."
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