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The main Republican committee for state legislative races aims to flip four more state chambers from Democratic control, seizing on widespread frustration with Democrats handling of the economy, asinflation reached a new 40-year high on Wednesday.The Republican State Leadership Committee RLSC has added Maine s House, Nevada s Senate, Oregon s Senate and Washington s House to its top targets this year, according to information first shared with CBS News. Democrats currently hold trifecta control mdash; both chambers and the governor in these states are Democrats mdash; in all four states, and all four chambers being targeted have single-digit margins that Republicans must overcome to take control.The committee also included the Colorado state Senate and Minnesota state House on its top target list. Republicans already dominate the nation s state legislatures, currently controlling 30, compared to Democrats 17. Three states have split control. The RLSC aims to expand the GOP s dominance of state chambers even where President Biden won handily in 2020 stanley cup mdash; Democratic majorities are an stanley becher ything but safe, said RSLC President Dee Duncan. Americans are looking to their stanley cup state legislatures to serve as a check and balance on the President s failing economic policies, giving state Republicans an opening to go on offense in places we normally don t contest, said Duncan. Still, he conceded that taking the majorities in these state chambers w Dnuw NAACP: GOP Activist s Sorry Not Enough
President Bush lifted an executive ban on offshore oil and gas drilling Monday, puttingmore pressure on congressional Democrats toaddress GOP calls to open more acreage for domestic energy exploration.The executive ban, established under Bush s father in 1990, is coupled with another prohibition Congress established in 1981, so lawmakers on Capitol Hill must rollback the congressional ban before energy companies can start looking for oil and gas in the Outer Continental Shelf. Even White House press secretary Dana Perino acknowledged Monday that this repeal would have minimal short-term impact on the price at the pump.But the moveincreases pressure on congressional Democrats toconfront a Republicanmeasure that wouldopen offshore drilling sites50 miles from much of the country s coastline. Democratic leadershave blockedvotes on this amendment in recent weeks, despite calls from their own members to consider it. With this action, the executive branch s restrictions on this exploration have been cleared away, Bush told reporters during a brief press conference in the White House Rose Garden. This means that the only thing standing between the American people and these vast oil resources is action from the U.S. Congress. Now the ball is squarely in Congress s court stanley quencher . Speaker Nancy Pelosi D-Calif stanley becher . and her leadership team in the House announced a series of modest proposals caneca stanley last week to rebuff this push. The focus was a call on the presiden
The main Republican committee for state legislative races aims to flip four more state chambers from Democratic control, seizing on widespread frustration with Democrats handling of the economy, asinflation reached a new 40-year high on Wednesday.The Republican State Leadership Committee RLSC has added Maine s House, Nevada s Senate, Oregon s Senate and Washington s House to its top targets this year, according to information first shared with CBS News. Democrats currently hold trifecta control mdash; both chambers and the governor in these states are Democrats mdash; in all four states, and all four chambers being targeted have single-digit margins that Republicans must overcome to take control.The committee also included the Colorado state Senate and Minnesota state House on its top target list. Republicans already dominate the nation s state legislatures, currently controlling 30, compared to Democrats 17. Three states have split control. The RLSC aims to expand the GOP s dominance of state chambers even where President Biden won handily in 2020 stanley cup mdash; Democratic majorities are an stanley becher ything but safe, said RSLC President Dee Duncan. Americans are looking to their stanley cup state legislatures to serve as a check and balance on the President s failing economic policies, giving state Republicans an opening to go on offense in places we normally don t contest, said Duncan. Still, he conceded that taking the majorities in these state chambers w Dnuw NAACP: GOP Activist s Sorry Not Enough
President Bush lifted an executive ban on offshore oil and gas drilling Monday, puttingmore pressure on congressional Democrats toaddress GOP calls to open more acreage for domestic energy exploration.The executive ban, established under Bush s father in 1990, is coupled with another prohibition Congress established in 1981, so lawmakers on Capitol Hill must rollback the congressional ban before energy companies can start looking for oil and gas in the Outer Continental Shelf. Even White House press secretary Dana Perino acknowledged Monday that this repeal would have minimal short-term impact on the price at the pump.But the moveincreases pressure on congressional Democrats toconfront a Republicanmeasure that wouldopen offshore drilling sites50 miles from much of the country s coastline. Democratic leadershave blockedvotes on this amendment in recent weeks, despite calls from their own members to consider it. With this action, the executive branch s restrictions on this exploration have been cleared away, Bush told reporters during a brief press conference in the White House Rose Garden. This means that the only thing standing between the American people and these vast oil resources is action from the U.S. Congress. Now the ball is squarely in Congress s court stanley quencher . Speaker Nancy Pelosi D-Calif stanley becher . and her leadership team in the House announced a series of modest proposals caneca stanley last week to rebuff this push. The focus was a call on the presiden