Reid to Renew Oil Shale Ban, Deny Americans Vast Energy Resources During Economic Crisis

In an article posted on the blog of Jim DeMint (Sen S.C.) 09/25/2008 – 12:46:53 PM you will find the following!

SEC. 1602. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including section 152 of division A of H.R. 2638 (110th Congress), the Consolidated Security, Disaster Assistance, and Continuing Appropriations Act, 2009, the terms and conditions contained in section 433 of division F of Public Law 110–161 shall remain in effect for the 19 fiscal year ending September 30, 2009.

This is text entered by Harry Reid in an effort to sneak through a continuation of the domestic oil drilling and exploration ban.

Little or no dialog was mentioned and it was attached to a paragraph entitled “Secure Rural Schools Act Amendment“.

1 CHAPTER 6
2 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
3 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
4 For an additional amount for ‘‘Science and Tech5
nology’’, $10,600,000, to remain available until September
6 30, 2010, for urgent bio-defense research activities.
7 HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE SUPERFUND
8 For an additional amount for ‘‘Hazardous Substance
9 Superfund’’, $24,165,000, to remain available until ex10
pended, for urgent decontamination and laboratory re11
sponse activities.
12 STATE AND TRIBAL ASSISTANCE GRANTS
13 For an additional amount for ‘‘State and Tribal As14
sistance Grants’’, $600,000,000, to remain available until
15 expended, for making capitalization grants for the Clean
16 Water State Revolving Funds under title VI of the Federal
17 Water Pollution Control Act, as amended.
18 GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS CHAPTER
19 SEC. 1601. SECURE RURAL SCHOOLS ACT AMEND20
MENT. (a) For fiscal year 2008, payments shall be made
21 from any revenues, fees, penalties, or miscellaneous re22
ceipts described in sections 102(b)(3) and 103(b)(2) of the
23 Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination
24 Act of 2000 (Public Law 106–393; 16 U.S.C. 500 note),
25 not to exceed $100,000,000, and the payments shall be
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23
SEN. APPROP.
1 made, to the maximum extent practicable, in the same
2 amounts, for the same purposes, and in the same manner
3 as were made to States and counties in 2006 under that
4 Act.
5 (b) There is appropriated $400,000,000, to remain
6 available until December 31, 2008, to be used to cover
7 any shortfall for payments made under this section from
8 funds not otherwise appropriated.
9 (c) Titles II and III of Public Law 106–393 are
10 amended, effective September 30, 2006, by striking
11 ‘‘2007’’ and ‘‘2008’’ each place they appear and inserting
12 ‘‘2008’’ and ‘‘2009’’, respectively.
13 SEC. 1602. Notwithstanding any other provision of
14 law, including section 152 of division A of H.R. 2638
15 (110th Congress), the Consolidated Security, Disaster As16
sistance, and Continuing Appropriations Act, 2009, the
17 terms and conditions contained in section 433 of division
18 F of Public Law 110–161 shall remain in effect for the
19 fiscal year ending September 30, 2009.

Who are the democrats trying to kid here?

Who are they working for? I don’t think it’s us.