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Western Senators Form Caucus to Combat, Among Other Things, “Anti-Oil Agenda”
By Courtney Lowery, 6-26-09
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| Senator Hatch test drives a plug-in electric Hummer H3 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Photo courtesy of Sen. Orrin Hatch. | |
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Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch says he, his fellow Senator Bob Bennett, Idaho’s Jim Risch and Wyoming’s John Barrasso have created the Western Senate Caucus because: “We have to fight very, very hard to make sure that the West is being treated fairly.”
In an announcement yesterday, the three Senators detailed a plan that Hatch likened to the Sagebrush Rebellion during the Carter years.
Barrasso says in the Salt Lake Tribune: “We believe in Western values, values of rugged individualism, of self-reliance and economic freedom,” said Barrasso. “We oppose the federal intrusion in the everyday lives of the people of our great country. The government should get out of the way of prosperity and liberty.”
The Senators times the formation of the caucus with its introduction of the Clean, Affordable, and Reliable Energy, or CARE, Act, legislation that Hatch described in a press release as, “A comprehensive energy bill… aimed at ensuring that all the energy tools are in place to fuel our economy and fix our nation’s dangerous overdependence on foreign oil.”
Hatch also said in the release, “One of the aims of the Senate Western Caucus is to thwart the anti-oil agenda of the Washington elite and their extreme environmentalist allies, while at the same time promoting alternative energy,” and he referenced Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s decision this week to repeal oil and gas leases in Utah. You can read some of the details of the CARE act on Hatch’s Web site.
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RH
Never mind. I totally concur with Hoskins. When these self annointed western Senators ask their cowboy hatted constituents to give up all their federal subsidies and various state-federal tax breaks for ranching and extractive industries , then I'll give them some due. But only then. Until that happens, I'll continue to c all it what it is : political grandstanding and preaching to their own deusional congregations.
If we raised prices for lumber to market rates and adjusted the fees for cattle grazing on public land from their 1920's era prices, and got rid of all the tax breaks that allow the ranchers and oilmen to drive around in giant trucks and live in big homes without ever paying taxes on them, the "rugged individualists" would be crying for Uncle Sam to come to their rescue within a week.
After the first six months of destroying our country to live up to some election promises to supporters like you most of which are union dues paying blind supporters of a democrat party that has done nothing for them , this president will hold a record that even Jimmy Carter couldn't break. You have been taken in by people who would do very well in the "infomercial" field.
If Tom Delay was as bad as was reported he would be in prison. He would not even show up on the scale compared to politics in Chicago,New York, Kansas City, Louisiana and other places two numerous to mention.
Until we have term limits in all forms of government to prevent the forming of the power structures on both sides of the aisle , all the people will not be represented.
First you would have a very hard time proving your statement in a debate or otherwise. You evidently believe all your hear from the left handed folks.
Second , what do you think you will get under Obama and all his Czars that will improve your way of life and all the other folks that were not represented under George W ?
Third, please check out the sources who are telling us we have a hundred year supply of natural gas that the libs are blocking companies from exploring.