"Lawmakers, Regulators, Meet To Discuss Drilling"

Congressmen Jeff Landry and David Vitter beet with a top Interior Department official to discuss the speed of President Obama’s administration regulation of the offshore drilling industry for the Gulf oil spill. The republicans were hoping to get Michael Bromwich, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement Director, to try and approve oil and gas drilling that will lead to more fast improvements. Bromwich turned down Representative Jeff Landry for a meeting, due to Landry stating in an interview with the Times -Picayune that the staff in the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement could be compared to the lawmakers of the Gestapo.

Republicans want to pass a regulatory bill that would allow more oil and gas drilling permits, which would increase the speed of President Obama’s “slow -walking offshore oil and gas permits.” Michael Bromwich, director BOEMRE, is part of the federal government and said that the bill could divide regulatory work and make it more complicated. The Republican bill would cause delay and duplication on whether who has a lease and who does not have a lease. Jeff Landry and David Vitter are using the lobbying pathway as to try and contact people that will support the Republican way of thinking on the issue of the oil spill. President Obama’s administration hopes to collect taxes that will provide the government with enough money to fix the problem but does not allow any drilling. Most people in Louisiana do not agree with Obama because as a state, we are very dependent on drilling right now. The Republicans think that people themselves need to be able to help with the oil spill and that the Democratic way of thinking is taking too long. Landry hoped to meet with Michael Bromwich to discuss factors of the Republican bill, but the interview was dismissed as Landry went on to compare the Federal government with that of the Gestapo, for simply making him wait twenty minutes in the lobby. Gregory Rusovich, chairman of the Business Council of Greater New Orleans and the River Region, disputed Browmwich’s and the Republican’s assessment by stating that there does not need to be more regulations and bureaucracies, there only needs to be safe and honest energy production.

Works Cited

http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2011/09/drilling_regulator_michael_bro.html

http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2011/10/sen_david_vitter_to_accompany.html

http://www.wdsu.com/news/29451927/detail.html

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