WASHINGTON -- Responding to President Obama's call in the American Jobs Act for increased infrastructure spending, House Republicans are offering up a favorite standby: offshore drilling."There are some initiatives, and you may see one as early as next week," Rep. Steven LaTourette (R-Ohio) told HuffPost on Monday after a speech at the Association of State Dam Safety Officials, "that talk about using revenues from the offshore leasing program to go into dam safety, road building and water infrastructure."More... (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/27/offshore-drilling_n_984107.html)
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