Senate Rejects Va. Offshore Drilling
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Sen. John W. Warner (R-Va.) failed to win approval yesterday for a proposal to allow exploration for natural gas off the Virginia coast, as procedural maneuvering and partisan divisions held up key parts of the Senate's energy package.
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Oil companies reject a union's claim that they are blocking investment in North Sea developments.
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WASHINGTON - The Senate, in an unusual Sunday session, saw its effort to pass a sweeping corporate tax bill grind to a halt in the face of delaying tactics by a Louisiana senator upset that the measure did not include pay support for members of the Reserves and National Guard.    By a 66-14 vote, lawmakers did agree to limit debate on the tax bill, which provides $136 billion in new tax breaks for businesses $10.1 billion to buy out tobacco farmers' government quotas...
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President George W. Bush&#39;s administration Wednesday beat off the latest bid by Democrats to derail its Iraq strategy, as the Senate blocked a bid to limit numbers of troops ready for deployment.
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By JOHN A. COLVIN  PORT ALLEN - A resolution supporting a subdivision development on the city's outskirts failed without a vote before the City Council on Wednesday night.
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr.; Journal Staff Writer  The state Department of Environmental Protection issued a "superseding order" that overrules the town Conservation Commission's rejection of a plan by Weaver's Cove.
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Republican gains in the Senate from last month's elections have pumped new life into the administration-backed move to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, prompting environmentalists to mount what one of them called "the fight of our lives" to defeat the proposal.
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The House is scheduled to vote today on a Senate plan for offshore oil and gas drilling that would open up new acreage in the Gulf of Mexico but that falls far short of an offshore drilling bill the House adopted earlier this year.
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House Democratic lawmakers on Thursday urged the Republican-controlled Congress to punish oil companies that won't renegotiate faulty drilling leases issued by the government almost a decade ago that have allowed companies to avoid paying billions in oil and gas royalties.
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The Senate narrowly rejected legislation on Wednesday that would have given military detainees the right to protest their detention in federal court
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The top U.S. law enforcement official faces a clash on Wednesday with Senate Democrats after he rejected demands to rule on the legality of an interrogation technique known as waterboarding
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Legislation faces major hurdle in the House of Delegates, which rejected the ban last year.
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The Senate yesterday rejected a nine-month timetable for bringing most troops home from Iraq, yet another legislative defeat for Democrats in what is shaping up as a losing battle to force President Bush to end the war.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - A federal judge has upheld  the Bush administration's plans to allow oil drilling  throughout a large section of federal land on Alaska's North  Slope, rejecting arguments by environmental groups that  unfettered oil development would harm the region.
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The U.S. House of Representatives on  Thursday approved a plan to allow oil drilling in Alaska&#039;s  Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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By GERARD SHIELDS  WASHINGTON - Environmental groups are praising a new Senate bill they claim would remove the potential for politics and mismanagement from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers projects, though Louisiana's two senators have expressed concerns about the measure.  U.S. Sen.
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By Brandon Larrabee< Morris News Service  ATLANTA - Development within 50 feet of coastal marshes would be barred under legislation proposed Wednesday by an Atlanta-area lawmaker.  Rep.