Kevin Vranes has a phud in Physical Ocean- ography and Cli- matology. He now studies sci- ence policy and politics at the I'm the last person to be mouthing off on partisan politics on ANWR, but there is an interesting development brewing right now. A bunch of House moderates are circulating a letter to be sent to Rep. Nussle (R-Iowa), who is the chairman of the Budget Committee, asking him to leave ANWR authorizing language out of the 2007 budget resolution.
The pressure worked last year and will likely work again this year. (AFAIK, a similar letter was sent last year.) The difference this year is that it appears that there will not be a repeat of last year's food fight over the issue. Very interesting is this quote from Rep. Pombo (R-CA), chair of Resources and one of the most pro-drilling members:
"I think our best shot at getting it done was last year," noting that this year's elections complicate efforts to press the issue. "I think if it does move, it's probably going to have to start on the Senate side." [from CQ Today]
That's a shocking abdication of the fight.
Comments
# 1 | Brian S. | March 2, 2006 4:40 PM
Sounds like it's not polling well during an election year. Or that no one is paying Pombo's campaign enough money to pay attention to it.