U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman took on the United States Interior Department once again by ordering it to act quickly on five pending permits. The ruling came the same day as oil containment test has proven successful. Feldman told the Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement...
Published: Thursday, February 03, 2011 at Nola.com While a backlog of drilling permits in Washington continues to feed oil industry angst, new data shows that more rigs are in the Gulf of Mexico than before the BP oil spill, indicating that operators might have more confidence in the future than...
Republicans Voting ‘Aye’ Rep. Sandy Adams [R, FL-24] Rep. Robert Aderholt [R, AL-4] Rep. Todd Akin [R, MO-2] Rep. Rodney Alexander [R, LA-5] Rep. Justin Amash [R, MI-3] Rep. Steve Austria [R, OH-7] Rep. Michele Bachmann [R, MN-6] Rep. Spencer Bachus [R, AL-6] Rep. Lou Barletta [R, PA-11] Rep. Roscoe...
Let us briefly review the rapidly growing rolls of companies, unions, and states bursting out of the Obamacare escape hatch. In early September, I noted the push by Obamacare promoter and Democrat Rep. Ron Wyden for a special state waiver from the very federal mandate he advocated for everyone else....
How Your Senator Voted on Obamacare Repeal Thursday, 03 Feb 2011 08:32 AM Here’s how your Senator voted on Obamacare repeal: Alabama: Sessions (R-AL), Yea Shelby (R-AL), Yea Alaska: Begich (D-AK), Nay Murkowski (R-AK), Yea Arizona: Kyl (R-AZ), Yea McCain (R-AZ), Yea Arkansas: Boozman (R-AR), Yea Pryor (D-AR), Nay California:...
Pelosi then shook her head before taking a question from another reporter. Her press spokesman, Nadeam Elshami, then told CNSNews.com that asking the speaker of the House where the Constitution authorized Congress to mandated that individual Americans buy health insurance as not a “serious question.” “You can put this on...
