Environmentalists’ Hold on Congress
Walter E. Williams
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Let’s face it. The average individual American has little or no clout with Congress and can be safely ignored. But it’s a different story with groups such as Environmental Defense Fund, Sierra Club and The Nature Conservancy. When they speak, Congress listens. Unlike the average American, they [...]

From GRASSFIRE July 29, 2009 
Call your Congressmen
I am asking every Grassfire team member to call their two Senators
and their Rep and tell them you want the ban on offshore drilling
lifted BEFORE the end of the week!
Talking Points:
#1 — I demand that Congress take action to lift the ban on drilling
      on the Outer [...]

This is an excerpt of FOX NEWS July 29, 2008:
and this from GOP House leader John Boehner earlier this morning on Fox (more info here):
MEGYN KELLY: Republican Congressman and House Minority Leader, from Ohio, John Boehner joins me now. Good morning Congressman.
HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER JOHN BOEHNER (R-OH): Megyn, good morning.
KELLY: Thank you for being here. [...]

JDoing It Right in the House
by Michael Franc

For the first time in a while, House Republicans are on the offense on an issue of national importance: removing obstacles to the production of more American energy.House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey abruptly shut down his committee indefinitely rather than allow Republicans to offer an amendment to [...]

Tell Congress: End America’s Dependence on Foreign Oil!
 
President Bush on July 14 lifted the executive ban on drilling for oil on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS).  But Congress has its own moratoria on drilling on the OCS and in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve (ANWR), and lawmakers must act to open up more domestic sources of energy to bring down [...]

July 28, 2008

Reid makes latest offer
in standoff over energy policy
 
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid offered his Republican colleagues four amendments to an oil speculation bill Monday afternoon, hoping to break the ongoing congressional stalemate over how to address high gas prices.
Reid offered the GOP amendments on nuclear energy, drilling on the coast and on lifting the Congressional ban on offshore drilling [...]

July 28, 2008

Coburn gets best of Reid on ‘omnibus’ package 
Sen. Tom Coburn is used to being a lonely “no” vote on overwhelming Senate votes, but on Monday afternoon, his GOP colleagues came to his defense.
Coburn (R-Okla.) prevailed in blocking a massive package of generally non-controversial bills that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid brought to the floor, [...]

Alternative Energy, Alternative Doomsday
Phil Harris
Monday, July 28, 2008
If you live under the false premise that doomsday will never come, some basic laws of nature (concerning energy) may be appropriate for you to note. Roughly speaking, since I am no physicist and neither are most of you, Entropy is the tendency of a system to move [...]

‘Lies Inc.’ would be the Democrat Party
by: Lee S Gliddon Jr
If you really want to make fools of those who follow Congressional actions just make certain to title any Bill to appear before the Senate or the House as something that will make people think it is for the good of America even if it does [...]

If American voters really learn just how much Democrat Senators and Congresspeople are doing to thwart any actions to curtail Illegal Immigration and oil/energy production and drilling, they’d see through the lies of the Media. Republicans are not using our tax dollars to remain in power as they are not in power!
Democrats are seeking the [...]