Today was day 19 of the Republican ’staycation’.

In 1978, Jimmy Carter signed the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act Amendments of 1978 into law. The amendments improved environmental safeguards and reduced barriers to OCS exploration and drilling activity. The amendments were designed to help move our domestic energy production forward with environmental safeguards in place and to assure that Outer Continental Shelf energy resources contributed more to our domestic energy supplies. We’re still waiting for that to happen.

Why?

Drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf has been banned since 1981 when Congress passed a Department of Interior spending bill that included a moratorium on department funds being used to lease acreage in the banned areas (which include our east and west coasts as well as a great portion of the coast along the Gulf of Mexico).

The Republicans returned to the House floor today to continue discussing the American Energy Act which provides an all of the above energy solution that relies on conservation, development of alternative energy sources, and reducing our independence on foreign oil by lifting the moratorium on offshore drilling.

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It’s been almost two years since Joseph Duncan plead guilty to the murder of Brenda Groene, Mark McKenzie, and Slade Groene. It’s been more than three years since he abducted Dylan and Shasta Groene and then killed Dylan.

A federal jury has sentenced convicted child killer Joseph Edward Duncan III to death in all three counts.

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Duncan, who pleaded guilty in December to 10 federal charges involving the kidnapping of two northern Idaho children and the murder of one of them in May 2005, offered no response to prosecutors’ call for his death.

All I can say, is it’s about time. In this case, justice was served very slowly.

For the past few months, make that the past few years, I have heard about (and seen) the Bush administration trampling on our rights. It turns out that trampling on our rights is a bi-partisan opportunity.

Police in Denver arrested an ABC News producer today as he and a camera crew were attempting to take pictures on a public sidewalk of Democratic Senators and VIP donors leaving a private meeting at the Brown’s Palace Hotel.

Taking photographs from a public sidewalk is not against the law. It is not illegal. What (or who) exactly was the Brown Palace Hotel trying to protect from the prying eye of the camera? We’ll never know because Denver police chose to violate the rights of Asa Eslocker to prevent that from happening.

Republicans are standing in front of the microphone everyday asking Nancy Pelosi to call Congress back into session so they can begin debate on the American Energy Act.

A few of these representatives have called on the President to do so, since Mrs. Pelosi has no intention of doing it. The problem is, he cannot do it. The President cannot call Congress back into session if either the House or the Senate are in session.

Harry Reid has made sure that the Senate is kept in “pro forma session” to keep the President from making recess appointments, and ironically, calling Congress back into session to discuss energy solutions.

Watch this video to learn more about the pro forma session, and see one (in full length) as it transpires.

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It’s the 18th day of the Republican ’staycation’.

While the Republicans were busy speaking to the American people about real energy solutions for our real energy crisis, Nancy Pelosi spent her day huddled with Democrats talking amongst themselves and then insulting real Americans asking her to do her job.

The energy crisis we are facing is not a Republican issue, it’s not a Democrat issue, it’s an American issue.

Call Nancy Pelosi’s office today, at (202) 225-0100 and tell her to Call Back Congress and get back to work.

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Here is the transcript of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s speech from the Democratic National Convention tonight:

I am honored to be here tonight. I’m here tonight as a proud mother. As a proud Democrat. As a proud senator from New York. A proud American. And a proud supporter of Barack Obama.

My friends, it is time to take back the country we love.

And whether you voted for me, or voted for Barack, the time is now to unite as a single party with a single purpose. We are on the same team, and none of us can afford to sit on the sidelines.
This is a fight for the future. And it’s a fight we must win together.

I haven’t spent the past 35 years in the trenches advocating for children, campaigning for universal health care, helping parents balance work and family and fighting for women’s rights here at home and around the world . . . to see another Republican in the White House squander our promise of a country that really fulfills the hopes of our people.

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