Oh where Oh where has the house gone? Have our legislators abandon us while the nation is in financial chaos they have abandoned there officers and went home. Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the house has deemed it so. Nothing has or was done on the oil issue.
No vote was taken on lifting the band of drilling oil. How about that! Are you surprised? It sure didn’t have me falling all over myself. So there is one month of summer remaining. The cold will come, and do you have the funds to keep you warm this winter? Again I ask, which will it be, buy food or stay warm?
Our old, our folks on fixed incomes don’t have any decisions. Again a way of culling the population? Or coming under the thumbs of a liberal government? (Selected handouts)
My previous blog I have offered you the reader sites to get in touch with your Reps and Senators. The time is now! Not tomorrow! By my next rant, I will put together a form letter to send to the elected in Washington and remind them why they are there.
Not for there self interests, but to represent us, “the people”.
At this time, I would like to activate a link from another individual that has and is expressing views similar. I would like to introduce Mr. Craig R. Smith and his site.
http://www.oilsolution.org
Mr. Smith shows a map of the no zone. Ask our elected officials in Washington, why can’t we? The answer will astound you. And one other thing, send their answers to me, I would love to compile them. Let the rest of our population know what we have elected and sent to Washington.
Until the next time
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Time to Revolt!
House Republicans go back on the floor Monday to talk gas prices
Continuing with their guerilla tactics from last week, House Republicans will be back on the floor Monday to talk gas prices, even though Congress is in recess, and they may stay there all week.
More than a dozen Republicans have already committed to make appearances, according to House GOP leadership aide, including National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Cole (Okla.).
Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) and Mike Pence (R-Ind.), who led Friday's five-hour talkathon after the House shut down for the August recess, are also expected to be there, according to this aide.
"In an urgent memo sent to GOP Members and staff Saturday (“A Call to Action on American Energy”), Republican Leader John Boehner (R-) and Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) hailed Friday’s action, and encouraged House Republicans to return to the Capitol beginning Monday morning to help keep the historic effort going," said a press release just released by Minority Leader Boehner's office.
“It’s not a request we make lightly. But the American people are suffering,” Boehner and Blunt said in the memo. “The consequences of continued congressional inaction on gas prices are unacceptable. We’ve called on the Speaker to call Congress back into an emergency session this month and schedule a vote on the American Energy Act. We must continue to make a stand until the Speaker complies.”
Update - Neither Boehner nor Blunt are expected to be in attendance at Monday's talkfest, and its unclear if they will show up at any point during the week, according to GOP leadership aides.
Update 2 - Boehner's office said on Monday that Blunt would return to Washington on Wednesday and Thursday.
The session will not be televised, since C-Span does not control the cameras inside the House chamber. Rather, those come under the purview of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and the Democrats, and they're unlikely to do anything to help Republicans.
But Republicans felt they got a lot of good press out of Friday's "revolt," so they will be back at it again, and younger GOP lawmakers were clearly energized by the tactic, something not evident among Republicans for most of the 110th Congress.
» Continue reading House Republicans go back on the floor Monday to talk gas prices
Pelosi was grilled by host George Stephanopolous on ABC's "This Week" over her refusal to allow an offshore oil drilling vote on the floor before the House adjourned for the five-week August recess, but Pelosi was having none of it.
"What you saw in the Congress this week was the war dance of the hand maidens of the oil companies," Pelosi said. That's what you saw on the Republican side of the aisle."
Pelosi and the Democrats have pushed alternatives to more drilling, including pointing out that oil companies already have control of 68 million acres of federal land and need to search for oil there first. Democrats are also pushing renewable fuels and conservation, and they're calling on President Bush to release 700 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
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