Times-Picayune: Vitter attacks “reckless” moratorium
Times-Picayune
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Louisiana Sens. Mary Landrieu and David Vitter lambasted the Obama administration Tuesday for imposing a moratorium on deepwater drilling that a string of witnesses from the Gulf states said would wreck the local economy and destroy a way of life…
Landrieu, a Democrat, and Vitter, a Republican, also faulted the Obama administration for refusing to send Christina Romer, chairwoman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, or any other official to appear before the committee to defend the moratorium.
"Like Sen. Landrieu, I invited the president to send any responsible witness to lay out their rationale for this moratorium," Vitter said. "Unfortunately, they were unable to produce a single witness. That's very telling and really a shame indeed."
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