Alaska's delegation silent on ports deal
Thursday, February 23, 2006 LIZ RUSKIN - - Anchorage Daily News
| Alaska's congressional delegation isn't saying much in the political firestorm over Dubai Ports World, a company owned by the United Arab Emirates that is poised to take over operations at six U.S. ports.
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Tsunami warning centers in Pacific to go on 24/7 staffing
Saturday, January 21, 2006
AP's JEANNETTE J. LEE - - Anchorage Daily News
| When news of a big earthquake hits in the middle of the night, it takes geophysicist Bruce Turner five minutes to fumble for his beeper, throw on a coat, scrape ice off his car windshield, drive a mile to work and transmit a tsunami alert from the West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center.
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Alaska, feds join in hunt for avian flu
Friday, January 20, 2006 ANN POTEMPA - - Anchorage Daily News
| Government agencies will study thousands of birds throughout Alaska this year in search of avian influenza, particularly the deadly H5N1 strain that's been transmitted to people, state and federal officials said Thursday.
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Stevens' bid to open ANWR fails
Thursday, December 22, 2005 LIZ RUSKIN - - Anchorage Daily News
| Sen. Ted Stevens' drive to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling failed in the Senate on Wednesday when he fell several votes short of the 60 votes he needed to avoid a filibuster.
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Senate to vote today on ANWR
Wednesday, December 21, 2005 LIZ RUSKIN - - Anchorage Daily News
| Two dozen reporters set upon Sen. Ted Stevens outside the Senate chamber Tuesday afternoon. Stretching their microphones and digital voice recorders toward him, they repeatedly asked some form of the same question: Does he have the votes?
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ANWR vote uncertain
Tuesday, December 20, 2005 LIZ RUSKIN - - Anchorage Daily News
| In a Senate vote that may come as early as Wednesday, Congress could end a 25-year dispute by opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.
Or not.
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House approves defense, ANWR bill
Monday, December 19, 2005
AP's JIM ABRAMS - - Anchorage Daily News
| House lawmakers opened the way for oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as one of their last acts of an all-night session early this morning bringing their legislative year to a close.
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Bridge would help Young's son-in-law
Monday, December 19, 2005 RICHARD MAUER - - Anchorage Daily News
| To state Board of Fisheries chairman Art Nelson, Don Young's Way, the proposed Knik Arm crossing named after his father-in-law, is hardly a bridge to nowhere.
For Nelson and his well-connected partners in Point Bluff LLC, Rep. Don Young's span is in fact a bridge to somewhere: their 60 acres of unobstructed view property on the Point MacKenzie side of Cook Inlet.
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ANWR maneuver infuriates senators
Thursday, December 15, 2005 LIZ RUSKIN - - Anchorage Daily News
| Democratic leaders are furious that Sen. Ted Stevens wants to use the Defense Department spending bill to push a measure to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.
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Senators asked to rein in cable TV
Wednesday, November 30, 2005 LIZ RUSKIN - - Anchorage Daily News
| WASHINGTON - Television bombards children with sex and violence, entertainment-industry critics say, and they want the government to help shield kids from it. But a string of broadcast, cable and satellite executives - and the actor who played mobster Ralph Cifaretto on HBO's "Sopranos" - on Tuesday urged Sen. Ted Stevens not to go too far.
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Disputes rise over sharing ANWR's wealth
Tuesday, November 29, 2005 TOM KIZZIA - - Anchorage Daily News
| A bitter rift over one regional Native corporation's exclusive rights to future oil revenues from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is bursting into public view with a call from other regional corporations for Congress to change the deal before it opens the refuge to drilling.
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Backers to fight for their bridge
Tuesday, November 22, 2005 SEAN COCKERHAM - - Anchorage Daily News
| Ketchikan leaders didn't worry much about the national criticism of their bridge because they figured Sen. Ted Stevens and Rep. Don Young had it locked in. Now they are launching a "Save Our Bridge" public relations blitz.
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Alaska will keep money for bridges
Thursday, November 17, 2005 LIZ RUSKIN - - Anchorage Daily News
| After suffering weeks of terrible publicity for spending $452 million on two Alaskan "bridges to nowhere," House and Senate lawmakers decided Wednesday night to drop the bridges but let Alaska keep the money.
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Senate targets state's 'bridges to nowhere'
Wednesday, November 16, 2005 LIZ RUSKIN - - Anchorage Daily News
| With nationwide scorn on Congress for spending $452 million on two so-called "bridges to nowhere," a Senate committee is trying to erase the two projects from the highway bill Congress passed this summer, Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, confirmed Tuesday.
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ANWR a hitch in House budget bill
Wednesday, November 9, 2005 LIZ RUSKIN - - Anchorage Daily News
| While House Republican leaders scout for the votes they need to pass their five-year budget package, a section that would open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling is becoming a divisive headache.
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House drops ANWR from budget
Thursday, November 10, 2005 LIZ RUSKIN - - Anchorage Daily News
| House Republicans, after long hours of scrounging for the votes to pass their five-year budget, decided Wednesday night to drop a provision that would open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.
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Some House Republicans attack Alaska's funds
Tuesday, November 8, 2005 LIZ RUSKIN - - Anchorage Daily News
| Federal spending on Alaska's so-called "bridges to nowhere" is facing renewed attack in the House of Representatives, where conservatives say the $452 million has become an embarrassment that may haunt them at election time.
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Linking ANWR to budget may backfire
Monday, November 7, 2005 LIZ RUSKIN - - Anchorage Daily News
| Proposals to allow drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge have sailed through the U.S. House in recent years, only to die in the Senate. Ironically, now that the Senate has finally passed an ANWR drilling bill, it looks like it's in trouble in the House.
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Report: Laws bar drilling
Wednesday, October 26, 2005 LIZ RUSKIN - - Anchorage Daily News
| As Congress treads ever closer to opening the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling, opponents are claiming that the development would violate the international human rights laws protecting the Gwich'in Indians.
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Stevens says he'll quit if bridge funds diverted
Friday, October 21, 2005 LIZ RUSKIN - - Anchorage Daily News
| A freshman senator from Oklahoma, saying he was answering America's call to stop wasteful spending, tried Thursday to divert $452 million from two massive Alaska bridge projects and spend some of it on a hurricane-damaged bridge in New Orleans.
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Several plan to run for governor in 2006
Monday, October 24, 2005 MATT VOLZ - - Anchorage Daily News
| The campaign to be Alaska's next governor is picking up steam, with a pair of Democrats throwing fundraisers and the entry of a Republican known for pointing out what she perceives as ethical lapses by members of her own party.
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AFN picks unity over battle for oil revenues
Sunday, October 23, 2005 TOM KIZZIA - - Anchorage Daily News
| An open battle over oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was averted Saturday at the Alaska Federation of Natives convention when sponsors withdrew a resolution calling for the North Slope's Native corporation to share future oil profits with other regions.
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Buy one now: Parks put up for purchase
Sunday, September 25, 2005 LIZ RUSKIN - - Anchorage Daily News
| U.S. Rep. Richard Pombo, chairman of the House Resources committee, has proposed to raise money by selling off 15 national parks, including seven in Alaska, according to a draft bill circulating Friday.
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Salmon industry reform is urged
Thursday, September 22, 2005 WESLEY LOY - - Anchorage Daily News
| Alaska's struggling commercial salmon industry can thrive only if it restructures, but it faces "fundamental obstacles" including lack of government leadership in making the needed changes, according to a new university study.
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ANWR protesters rally at U.S. Capitol
Wednesday, September 21, 2005 LIZ RUSKIN - - Anchorage Daily News
| Bus loads of college students, dozens of Alaska Natives and one slender man swaddled in plastic bags were among hundreds of people who united on the U.S. Capitol grounds Tuesday to protest a Republican plan to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.
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More Alaska Guard deployed to Iraq
Monday, September 19, 2005 TATABOLINE BRANT - - Anchorage Daily News
| Seventy members of the Alaska National Guard will ship out for Iraq this week, the third Guard deployment to the Middle East in four weeks and a growing example of how things have changed for Alaskans serving in the state's military forces.
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Tundra greener as Northern forests dry
Thursday, September 15, 2005 DOUG O'HARRA - - Anchorage Daily News
| The tundra of Alaska and northern Canada has been "greening" dramatically as the Arctic warms, with more plant growth and longer growing seasons, according to a new study that analyzed thousands of satellite images taken over two decades.
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ANWR no budget item, GOP reps say
Friday, August 12, 2005
AP's H. JOSEF HEBERT - - Anchorage Daily News
| Two dozen House Republicans, including three committee chairmen, have asked Speaker Dennis Hastert not to use a congressional budget procedure to clear the way for oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.
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ANWR fight still to rage in Congress
Monday, August 8, 2005
AP's H. JOSEF HEBERT - - Anchorage Daily News
| Conspicuous by its absence in the sweeping energy bill that President Bush has championed and will sign today is his top energy priority: opening an Alaska wildlife refuge to oil drilling.
But the fight over the future of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge will flare anew in Congress next month with drilling advocates saying they have their best chance in more than two decades of making it happen.
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Alaskans enlighten senator on light
Monday, July 25, 2005 LIZ RUSKIN - - Anchorage Daily News
| Mild dismay comes over Sen. Lisa Murkowski when asked about a proposal in Congress to extend daylight-saving time, which would have Americans springing forward earlier in spring and falling back later in autumn.
Her heart is not into messing with daylight-saving time, she said.
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Stevens wants a fair PBS
Saturday, June 25, 2005 LIZ RUSKIN - - Anchorage Daily News
| Sen. Ted Stevens said he will try to restore federal funding for public broadcasting, but he warned that public radio and television must change their ways.
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Stevens says public needs Iraq war info
Friday, June 24, 2005 LIZ RUSKIN - - Anchorage Daily News
| With polls showing American support of the Iraq war slipping, and with each day bringing news of more explosions and casualties, Sen. Ted Stevens said the Bush administration needs to give the public more information about the war's progress and the U.S. plan for ending it.
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Base's supporters ready to rally
Tuesday, June 14, 2005 TATABOLINE BRANT - - Anchorage Daily News
| Thousands of people dressed in red "America Needs Eielson" T-shirts are expected to pack a Fairbanks sports arena Wednesday to show support for their local military base in what may be the biggest public hearing Fairbanks has ever seen.
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Senator dislikes bridge routes
Friday, June 3, 2005 DON HUNTER - - Anchorage Daily News
| Bulldozing access to a Knik Arm bridge through Government Hill would be bad for the bluff-top community and bad for downtown Anchorage, U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski said this week.
Besides that, it's her neighborhood.
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Energy bill patience urged
Thursday, June 2, 2005 NICOLE TSONG - - Anchorage Daily News
| Alaskans suffering from soaring gas prices aren't likely to find immediate relief from an energy bill making its way through Congress, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski said Wednesday. But she also counseled patience when it comes to energy costs.
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Murkowski not a key player in judicial nominee accord
Tuesday, May 24, 2005 NICOLE TSONG - - Anchorage Daily News
| Sen. Lisa Murkowski strongly advocated a compromise in the Senate battle over judicial nominees and was the subject of intense lobbying by conservative and liberal interest groups, but the Alaska Republican was not among the senators who brokered a compromise after days of intense negotiations.
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Senators mobilize against closures
Friday, May 20, 2005 NICOLE TSONG - - Anchorage Daily News
| A Pentagon proposal to cut nearly 3,000 jobs from Eielson Air Force Base outside Fairbanks has prompted Alaska's two senators to back new legislation that would delay the base closure process nationwide.
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Stevens pitches full-size Eielson
Friday, May 20, 2005 NICOLE TSONG - - Anchorage Daily News
| Less than a week after the Pentagon released a proposal to strip 3,000 jobs from Eielson Air Force Base outside Fairbanks, Sen. Ted Stevens launched his own campaign to convince a Pentagon commission that Eielson is critical to national security.
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Murkowski keeps mum
Wednesday, May 18, 2005 NICOLE TSONG - - Anchorage Daily News
| As the Senate nears an epic clash over the fate of filibusters against judicial nominees, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski continued to keep her position to herself, saying Tuesday that she remained hopeful a bipartisan compromise will be reached.
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Murkowski criticizes U.N. nominee
Friday, May 13, 2005 NICOLE TSONG - - Anchorage Daily News
| Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, was among the small number of Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who expressed serious reservations about John Bolton, the nominee for United Nations ambassador. Murkowski criticized Bolton's management style and diplomacy skills at a meeting of the Senate Foreign Relations committee Thursday but still voted to send his nomination to the Senate floor.
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Threat from air scatters Congress
Thursday, May 12, 2005 NICOLE TSONG - - Anchorage Daily News
| Sen. Lisa Murkowski was just starting her weekly turn at presiding over the U.S. Senate during the noon hour Wednesday when she heard a commotion from her perch on the dais. She didn't think anything was amiss, but thought someone should calm the crowd down.
Then someone popped through a door.
"Get out!" the person shouted.
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Nurturing comes naturally to our top soccer mom
Sunday, May 8, 2005 BETH BRAGG - - Anchorage Daily News
| Lisa Murkowski is confident none of her colleagues in the U.S. Senate spent the weeklong break that ends Monday quite the way she did.
Sure, many of them used the time to return home and talk to constituents about hot-button issues like No Child Left Behind. But chances are good that only Murkowski had that conversation in the context of a parent-teacher conference, with a constituent who also happens to be her son's teacher.
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ANWR drilling moves closer in budget bill
Friday, April 29, 2005
AP's H. JOSEF HEBERT - - Anchorage Daily News
| Congress on Thursday moved a step closer to opening an Alaskan wildlife refuge to oil drilling as House and Senate Republicans reached agreement on a budget outline that could be used to consider the issue without the threat of a filibuster.
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Stevens says Cheney would settle tie on filibuster vote
Saturday, April 23, 2005 NICOLE TSONG - - Anchorage Daily News
| As the debate over President Bush's judicial nominees continued to consume the Capitol, the senior Republican in the Senate, Ted Stevens of Alaska, said Friday he is now out of the picture as the person who would push the button on the "nuclear option."
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ANWR lobby funds win first approval
Tuesday, April 19, 2005 LARRY PERSILY - - Anchorage Daily News
| In a combined eight minutes of testimony and questions, the House and Senate Finance committees separately approved $1.3 million for another year of lobbying to win congressional approval for oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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Threat to use filibuster is denounced
Friday, April 15, 2005 NICOLE TSONG - - Anchorage Daily News
| A day after the House Resources Committee approved an energy bill with a measure to allow oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the committee's chairman sharply criticized Senate tactics that have made it impossible for the same measure to pass there.
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House bolsters ANWR drilling
Thursday, April 14, 2005 NICOLE TSONG - - Anchorage Daily News
| A U.S. House committee backed oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in a comprehensive energy bill it passed Wednesday.
Proponents of opening the refuge to oil development easily defeated an effort to remove the drilling provision from the bill, voting down an amendment 30-13.
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Oil platforms could host fish farms
Sunday, April 10, 2005
AP's CAIN BURDEAU - - Anchorage Daily News
| Thousands of oil and natural gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico could be converted into deep-sea fish farms raising red snapper, mahi mahi, yellowfin tuna and flounder, under a plan backed by the Bush administration.
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ANWR drilling could die with budget
Sunday, April 3, 2005 RICHARD MAUER - - Anchorage Daily News
| Opening the Arctic refuge to oil drilling was at the fore of the Senate budget debate last month, but now it has been overshadowed by even more controversial items in the budget as Congress attempts to reconcile two very divergent spending plans in the weeks ahead.
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Governor, aide send mixed NPR-A signals
Wednesday, March 30, 2005 WESLEY LOY - - Anchorage Daily News
| A ranking official in the state Department of Natural Resources last month wrote federal officials recommending that the expansion of oil and gas leasing in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska should be restricted, but Gov. Frank Murkowski subsequently wrote a letter that seems more bullish on drilling.
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Senate hearing on outlawing marijuana stirs strong feelings
Friday, March 25, 2005 SEAN COCKERHAM - - Anchorage Daily News
| JUNEAU -- The debate over recriminalizing pot has nerves on edge at the Capitol.
Eagle River Sen. Fred Dyson, whose committee held a hearing on the issue Wednesday, said he wanted an apology for what he called nasty phone calls from people against a bill designed to make pot illegal again.
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Senate votes to open ANWR to drilling
Thursday, March 17, 2005 RICHARD MAUER - - Anchorage Daily News
| Supporters of opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil development won a major battle today when the U.S. Senate narrowly defeated an effort to strip a drilling provision from the 2006 budget.
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Slim vote keeps ANWR alive
Thursday, March 17, 2005 RICHARD MAUER - - Anchorage Daily News
| Supporters of opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil development won a major battle Wednesday when the U.S. Senate narrowly defeated an effort to strip a drilling provision from the 2006 budget.
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Key vote is likely today on ANWR
Wednesday, March 16, 2005 RICHARD MAUER - - Anchorage Daily News
| Opponents of oil development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge moved Tuesday to strike a drilling provision from the Senate budget resolution. Debate is expected to end today with a key vote this afternoon.
But even as they rallied their side at an enthusiastic press conference Tuesday morning, the drilling opponents acknowledged they were starting the debate a vote or two shy of success.
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Governor may skip federal road funds
Saturday, March 12, 2005
AP's MATT VOLZ - - Anchorage Daily News
| Gov. Frank Murkowski wants to bypass federal highway money and instead use state debt to pay for his $145 million transportation initiative, a move that would let the state avoid conducting environmental impact statements.
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Struggle to open ANWR leaves Stevens 'depressed'
Saturday, March 12, 2005 RICHARD MAUER - - Anchorage Daily News
| Sen. Ted Stevens said Friday he's been suffering from "clinical depression" for the past year over his failure to get Congress to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration and will consider retirement when his term ends in 2008 if such a measure is stripped from the budget next week.
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Republicans save ANWR provision
Friday, March 11, 2005 RICHARD MAUER - - Anchorage Daily News
| Republicans held off an attempt Thursday to strip the Senate budget resolution of its provision to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration, setting the stage for the next battle on the Senate floor, probably next week.
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Fight brews over ANWR budget tactic
Thursday, March 10, 2005 RICHARD MAUER - - Anchorage Daily News
| Congress played out its script on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on Wednesday with the introduction of budget measures in both chambers, the one in the Senate containing a provision to open the refuge to drilling, the one in the House not.
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