Inhofe Leads Fight

Senate Overwhelmingly Rejects Democrat-Led Effort Against Domestic Energy Jobs

By EPW Blog
Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Link to Press Release http://tinyurl.com/2ehcftr
Read/Watch Senator Inhofe Floor Statement http://tinyurl.com/29472l7
Watch Inhofe-Sanders Debate American Energy Policy http://www.youtube.com/user/JimInhofePressOffice

Washington, D.C. - Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today led the fight against a Democrat-led effort to punish workers in America’s oil and natural gas industry. By a vote of 35 to 61, the Senate soundly defeated the Sanders amendment (SA. 431 to the Tax Extenders Bill that would have imposed a multi-billion tax increase on America’s domestic energy producers.

“This was a vote about American jobs, plain and simple,â€