House Passes Sweeping Oil-Spill Package

"The bill, passed 209 to 193, would impose new safeguards for offshore drilling, remove a liability cap for spill damages, and hit energy producers with a new tax to fund conservation measures."

Contractors unload oil booms to protect marshlands in Hopedale, Louisiana, 05/13/10. (photo: John Moore/Getty Images)

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+5 # Pete Hart 2010-07-31 10:22

Kudos to the House Dems! Now let's see if Democratic Senators can shame enough of their colleagues into doing the right thing. I wish we could rely on Obama to twist some arms, but that's unlikely. I'll vote for him again in 2012, but he's a sad, sad disappointment.

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+3 # m 2010-07-31 11:25

GREAT NEWS...!.. Thanks House DEMS..!...

:-)

Now We all get to watch it go to Our Corporate Sponsored Senate for heaps and piles of opportunistic, self serving Senatorial Bullshit Speeches as it DIES a typically wasted Death in the Global Corporate Run Senate.

:-(

Long Live the Shrinking Republic..!!!

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+1 # James Singer 2010-07-31 13:33

And the chances of it passing the gutless Senate are zero and none.

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0 # donna 2010-08-06 10:01

God help us, our senate sucks! What a bunch of spineless criminals, they use our money to lobby for their rich buddies, Get rid of them.

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