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UNLIMITED OFF-SHORE DRILLING?
Take a look - a real close look - at what House Science Committee Chairman Boehlert (R-NY) had to say in a speech to the House yesterday:

The way the House is handling off-shore oil drilling today pretty much defines 'travesty'. For the first time in more than a generation, we are going to vote on opening the entire coastline of the United States to oil and natural gas drilling. You'd think that would be considered a rather major matter that requires some thoughtful discussion. ......The base bill was not filed until Monday .......Re-writing continued well into the night last evening........Massive changes in the bill that no one was able to see until after midnight.

Is this a process we can be proud of? It seems all one has to do around here is use the word 'oil' for the sanctity of the democratic process to simply slip away. The process we're using today gives new meaning to the phrase 'oil slick.'

Read the report on what's happening in our name, by our representatives at www.truthout.org/docs_2006/063006Z.shtml.

Here is where you can take action and write or call your congressperson:

In California:
http://action.angelides.com/campaign/oildrilling

In Florida:
http://ga1.org/campaign/offshoredrilling.

All other citizens:
http://action.wilderness.org/campaign/hr4761.
- posted by Gloria @ 12:55 PM