Dems Angry As GOP Tries To Force Offshore Drilling Vote.

The article reports on the move by the House of Appropriations Committee Republicans to substitute a pending Interior spending bill for Labor-HHS in a bid to force a vote on offshore oil and gas drilling in the U.S. Appropriations Chairman David Obey said that the kind of partisan strategy could induce him to halt markups on remaining spending measures on those bills. Jerry Lewis proposed a substitute to the bill that would displace the underlying health, education and job training measure.