The Senate Democrats voted against a bill today that (1)would have required the Interior Department to act on drilling permits within 60 days of filing, and (2) would have set a prompt schedule for the auction of leases that president Obama has said should go ahead. Before the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the average time for the government to review a drilling permit was six days, so the law would give the government ten times longer to review those permits. The net effect of the law would have been to speed up oild drilling from the full stop engineered by Obama. It put to the test the new commitment announced by Obama to a speed up of drilling approvals.
We now know for sure that the Obamacrats did not mean a word of what was said. It was a lie, plain and simple.
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