Yet contradictory info....Phyllis Mains


Energy

House Majority Leader DeLay today said
comprehensive House energy legislation will include a provision
to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas
exploration, despite Tuesday's announcement by House Energy and
Commerce Chairman Barton and Energy and Commerce Energy and Air
Quality Subcommittee Chairman Ralph Hall, R-Texas, that it would
not be in their bill. DeLay said he expects House Resources
Chairman Pombo to include an ANWR provision in the portion of
the bill his committee prepares. "I know that Chairman Pombo is
committed to ensuring any final bill that reaches the floor has
an ANWR provision," said DeLay. "I wholeheartedly supported his
efforts in the past and will do so again this year." DeLay noted
that "multiple committees, including Ways and Means, Resources,
Science as well as Energy and Commerce, will take up specific
bills that will ultimately be combined to form the comprehensive
package that will reach the House floor."

    House Majority Leader DeLay today briefly outlined the
legislative agenda for the three-week work period between the
Presidents' Day recess and the Easter recess in late March.
During the first week of March, the House will take up a
continuity of government bill sponsored by Judiciary Chairman
Sensenbrenner to provide for the reconstitution of the House in
the event of a catastrophic attack that killed or incapacitated
a significant number of House members. Also that week, the House
is expected to take up the "Workforce Investment Act." The week
of March 7, the House will take up the long-stalled highway
bill. The week of March 14, the House will take up the
president's supplemental funding request for military operations
in Iraq and Afghanistan and tsunami relief efforts, as well as
the FY06 budget resolution. A spokesman for DeLay said that
while the leader did not specify the energy bill for floor
action during that time, it remains a possibility.


Patrick Shannon
Alaska Coalition
West Coast Organizer
5825 N. Greeley Ave.
Portland, OR 97217
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