{"id":494596,"date":"2010-03-31T17:03:45","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T21:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=81125"},"modified":"2010-03-31T17:03:45","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T21:03:45","slug":"hoyer-endorses-obama%e2%80%99s-drilling-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/494596","title":{"rendered":"Hoyer Endorses Obama\u2019s Drilling Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just out from the office of House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) is this statement applauding President Obama&#8217;s move to expand offshore oil drilling:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Today\u2019s announcement will help create jobs and strengthen our national security as we move away from foreign sources of oil.\u00a0 Andrews Air Force Base was a fitting setting for today\u2019s remarks, because enhancing our energy independence is critical to our national security.\u00a0 One of the most significant things we can do to bolster our security is to free ourselves from relying on other nations for oil, by increasing domestic production, reducing consumption, and developing alternatives.\u00a0 The plan put forward today will help us determine what resources are available to us, and how to appropriately tap into those resources, keeping in mind the need to protect our environment. The Obama Administration\u2019s plan is another key step as we move toward energy independence.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span id=\"more-81125\"><\/span>That&#8217;s a more forceful endorsement than House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/81029\/pelosis-cautious-reaction-to-white-house-plan-to-expand-offshore-drilling\" >gave<\/a> this afternoon, though even she appears to be supportive of the drilling expansion &#8212; if only to put Republicans in the uncomfortable position of opposing a practice they&#8217;d <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/315\/someone-make-them-stop\" >supported so adamantly<\/a> in 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just out from the office of House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) is this statement applauding President Obama&#8217;s move to expand offshore oil drilling: Today\u2019s announcement will help create jobs and strengthen our national security as we move away from foreign sources of oil.\u00a0 Andrews Air Force Base was a fitting setting for today\u2019s remarks, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}