Senate Votes 97-1 to Halt Bush Oil Gouging


	Senate Votes 97-1 to Halt Bush Oil Gouging

maquser

5-13-2008 1:36 PM

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and McCain is nowhere to be found

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                                        Senate says stop putting oil into US reserves</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080513/ap_on_go_co/congress_energy"><P>
                        WASHINGTON - The Senate, in a direct challenge to <SPAN id="lw_1210698134_0" class="yshortcuts">President Bush</SPAN>, voted Tuesday to temporarily halt the shipment of thousands of barrels of oil a day into the government's emergency reserve.                        
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Democratic Sens. <SPAN id="lw_1210698134_13" class="yshortcuts">Barack Obama</SPAN> of <SPAN id="lw_1210698134_14" class="yshortcuts">Illinois</SPAN> and <SPAN id="lw_1210698134_15" class="yshortcuts">Hillary Rodham Clinton</SPAN> of <SPAN id="lw_1210698134_16" class="yshortcuts">New York</SPAN>, interrupting their presidential campaigns, voted to halt the oil reserve deliveries. <SPAN id="lw_1210698134_17" class="yshortcuts">Sen. John McCain</SPAN>, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, was not present for the vote.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/FC9172A1-8727-4FD5-A598-CF43D4A5543F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>