Meanwhile, Obama's Job-Killing Moratorium Remains in Place, as Workers in the Gulf Suffer

Inhofe: Reid Punt on Spill Bill Exposes Empty Political Exercise

By EPW Blog Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Link to Press Release http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm? ... &Issue_id=

Washington, DC - Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, issued the following statement after the announcement by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to punt consideration of a Gulf oil spill bill until September.

“That Majority Leader Reid scrapped plans to consider oil spill legislation this week is not surprising; it merely exposes what we already knew: this was an empty political exercise from the beginning,â€