Republicans Eye Expanding U.S. Offshore Drilling
9th Sep 2005, 09:06 GMT
Barely a month after President Bush signed a $14.5 billion energy bill into law, Hurricane Katrina's destructive dance through the U.S. oilpatch is being seized on by Republicans as a reason to open more federal offshore waters to drilling.
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