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The Democratic-led Senate voted Wednesday to bar coal mining and oil and gas drilling inside federally protected national monuments in the West, dealing a fresh blow to President Bush s energy production plans. stanley mug The 57-42 roll call aligned the Senate with the House, which voted last month to ban mineral extraction from the monuments after Democrats there won support from moderate Republicans. The two chambers votes make it likely that the prohibition will be included in the compromise spending bill for the Inter gourde stanley ior Department that they will write in coming weeks.The vote came as House Republicans began crafting a scaled-back energy pac stanley cup usa kage that they hope to pass by August. The Senate proposal, offered by Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., would forbid new mining and drilling while allowing ongoing operations to proceed.He acted after the Interior Department said there are significant energy reserves inside monuments designated by former President Clinton, including large low-sulfur coal deposits in the 1.7-million acre Grand Staircase Escalante National monument in Utah. President Bush needs to realize that damaging these irreplaceable lands is not going to solve America s energy crisis, but could cause a crisis in conservation, Durbin said.But opponents said closing off mineral exploration in the monuments would be short-sighted in light of the country s energy problems.Click here for a closer look at the Bush presidency.Click here fo
One Georgia county plagued by long lines resulting from problems with voting machines is keeping polls open for an extra two hours Tuesday in the state s primary e stanley cup lection. Georgia s primary election wasdelayed from March 24due to thecoronavirus pandemicbut the voting machine problems stanley canada are unrelated. Fulton County, which includes parts of Atlanta, said it will will keep polls open until 9 p.m. after a Superior Court of Fulton County ruling. Any voter in line until that time will be allowed to vote, Fulton County tweeted. Georgia s secretary of state earlier announced an investigation into elections processes in Fulton and DeKalb counties. Gwinnett county also reported long lines due to the voting machines.CBS News campaign reporter Tim PerryreportsGeorgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced last year that the state would be purchasing these machines stanley deutschland at a cost of $104 million. Though poll workers are voicing their concerns about the equipment, Raffensperger s office is putting the blame on the workers from individual counties for not knowing how to work the machines. Obviously, the first time a new voting system is used there is going to be a learning curve, and voting in a pandemic only increased these difficulties. But every other county faced these same issues and were significantly better prepared to respond so that voters had every opportunity to vote, Raffensperger said in a statement. The voting situation today in certain precincts in Fulton and Dekalb cou Ynwr Kirk: Clinton Wouldn t Be Able to Govern
The Democratic-led Senate voted Wednesday to bar coal mining and oil and gas drilling inside federally protected national monuments in the West, dealing a fresh blow to President Bush s energy production plans. stanley mug The 57-42 roll call aligned the Senate with the House, which voted last month to ban mineral extraction from the monuments after Democrats there won support from moderate Republicans. The two chambers votes make it likely that the prohibition will be included in the compromise spending bill for the Inter gourde stanley ior Department that they will write in coming weeks.The vote came as House Republicans began crafting a scaled-back energy pac stanley cup usa kage that they hope to pass by August. The Senate proposal, offered by Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., would forbid new mining and drilling while allowing ongoing operations to proceed.He acted after the Interior Department said there are significant energy reserves inside monuments designated by former President Clinton, including large low-sulfur coal deposits in the 1.7-million acre Grand Staircase Escalante National monument in Utah. President Bush needs to realize that damaging these irreplaceable lands is not going to solve America s energy crisis, but could cause a crisis in conservation, Durbin said.But opponents said closing off mineral exploration in the monuments would be short-sighted in light of the country s energy problems.Click here for a closer look at the Bush presidency.Click here fo