Nov. 10, 2005 - Offshore Drilling

Fearing it would hurt approval of the federal budget, U.S. House leaders abandoned a plan to open a contested tract off the Florida Gulf coast to oil drilling, and a proposal to allow states to waive a 24-year ban on drilling along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.

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