Pelosi: Despite Oil Spill, We Must Pass Energy Bill
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters Tuesday that despite the Transocean Deepwater Horizon oil spill it is still necessary to pass a comprehensive energy bill.
"The risk that is presented by offshore drilling has to be taken into consideration, but we must pass this bill.... I don't think this is something that will stop."
Other lawmakers, led by Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., blasted the offshore oil industry's current emergency plans. "Most of the people in this nation want to pause to check to see if we have a prevention system and a cleanup system that's worthy of this century. Because we're still using one that we've used from the beginning of time."
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Miller did say that an energy bill could go forward so long as it was combined with a "critical reanalysis" of the nation's ability to prevent and clean up any future offshore oil disasters.