Energy Legislation Stalls On Partisan Bickering ; Impasse Looms in Dispute Over Amendments

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Congress spun toward an impasse on energy legislation Tuesday as Republicans and Democrats talked past each other about how to cure America's gas-price woes.

Republicans are pushing for legislation to increase domestic oil production, which includes expanding offshore drilling, opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska, and lifting a moratorium on oil-shale production.

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Energy Legislation Stalls On Partisan Bickering ; Impasse Looms in Dispute Over Amendments

But Democrats have remained steadfast in their opposition to opening up new areas for drilling, saying that oil companies already hold leases on 68 million acres in the West and western Gulf of M...

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