Bush's Arctic Drilling Legislation Defeated

The core item of the Bush administration's energy policy, drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was blocked in the Senate.

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April 19, 2002, 8:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"President Bush suffered a double-edged loss in the Senate yesterday over drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Lawmakers for the first time delivered a stinging rebuke to a core item in his domestic agenda, and his defeat was engineered by three of his potential Democratic challengers in 2004."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

Read the full story: A Stinging Repudiation Engineered by 3 Democrats

Thursday, April 18, 2002 in The Washington Post

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