The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday rejected the Obama administration's proposed five-year offshore drilling plan, replacing it with legislation that would implement a new drilling plan. The House voted 253-170 in favor of replacing Obama's proposed plan with H.R. 6082, which would expand the number of lease sales held, and would open up for leasing tracts on the Outer Continental Shelf offshore southern California and Virginia. Under the president's proposed plan, a lease sale is scheduled...
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