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Dick Cheney to Rush Limbaugh: ANWR Drilling Not Dead
The White House will continue to press Congress to pass legislation to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration, Vice President Dick Cheney said Wednesday. "We'll keep pushing it because we think it makes eminent good sense," Cheney told top conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh. "We came very close in the last session to getting it, and we'll keep working on it." Explaining why President Bush didn't mention ANWR during his State of the Union message, Cheney said he wanted to emphasize "a long-term view here, reaching out as much as 20 years in terms of the effort to reduce our imports, but [with] the emphasis on technology." The Bush administration also wants to pursue "what we think are some imminent break-throughs in the R&D area that are going to allow us to produce more of the energy we need, even for our transportation system, here at home," he said.
Story Continues Below Cheney told Limbaugh that the president will also continue to push for Social Security reform, despite the Democrat's success in stalling the program. "The Democrats cheered at the fact that we hadn't been able to make any progress," he noted. "But then [the president] came right back and reminded them, yes, but the problem is still there, folks. "Every year that goes by and we don't address it, the problem becomes more severe," Cheney reminded.
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