Saturday, July 31, 2010

House Democrats face resistance from their own caucus on oil spill bill - TheHill.com

House Democrats face resistance from their own caucus on oil spill bill - TheHill.com:
By Darren Goode - o7/29/10
"About 30 oil-state Democrats, many of them Blue Dogs, oppose the removal of a liability cap on economic damages for oil and gas producers, not just retroactively for BP, but for all companies involved in future spills.

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Echoing the arguments of some of their centrist Democratic colleagues in the Senate, they say that measure would price smaller independent companies — many of which they represent — out of the offshore drilling business."

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