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George W. Bush This is a challenging time for families across our nation. I know many families are worried about rising prices at the pump and declining home values. So this week my Administration took steps to help address both these challenges. To help address the pressure on gasoline prices, my Administration took action to clear the way for environmentally responsible offshore exploration of key parts of the Outer Continental Shelf, or OCS. How Much Higher Do Gas Prices Have to Go Before Congress Acts? John Boehner It’s no wonder that just 14 percent of the American public believes that Congress is doing a good job with such cynical moves as the recent vote on the ill-named "Drill Now" Act. This bill was the Democratic Majority’s answer to soaring gas prices, but the legislation would actually not do a single thing to lower prices and help us move toward energy independence. Congress’ Energy Problem Joe Pitts On June 8, the nationwide average for a gallon of gasoline hit $4.00 a gallon. Since that day, the House of Representatives has been in session for five weeks. During that time, Congressmen have been able to vote on one bill that provides for increased use of American-made oil and natural gas resources, and that bill was defeated because it also included a provision that would simultaneously make it more difficult for companies to extract oil from federal lands. A Higher Morality? Gary Cooperberg Aside from the pain of seeing two coffins rather than live soldiers, there should also be a reassessment of the deal made to free our soldiers. It is one thing for us to return terrorist bodies for the bodies of our soldiers, but it is outrageous to consider trading live murderers for dead soldiers. It must be assumed that those who made this morbid deal had hoped that our soldiers were still alive. Gas Price Reduction Act Jon Kyl In May, when many Americans were making plans for their summer vacations, Senate Republicans offered a plan to lower gas prices. We offered an amendment that would lift restrictions on domestic energy production, thereby allowing the U.S. to tap its own resources on federal lands and off our shores. As I have noted in a previous column, close to 600 million acres of federal coastal waters are off-limits to exploration. Euro-Med Summit Diplomatic Triumph, But With Little Effect Ahto Lobjakas President Nicolas Sarkozy and France, which currently holds the EU Presidency, scored a diplomatic triumph on July 13, successfully negotiating an EU summit with other Mediterranean countries. The launch of a "Union for the Mediterranean," a revamped cooperation forum for the EU and its Mediterranean neighbors, has potential for controversy, however. Getting Out of Iraq Ron Paul What will it take to get our troops out of Iraq? The roughly 70 percent of Americans who are firmly against the war often ask this question. Those in power are reluctant to give conditions, but when they do and those conditions are met, the goal post is quietly moved. Voters were promised, passionately and vehemently, that the new Congress would bring our troops home. Many were explicitly elected in 2006 under that banner. Will Brussels Get Tough With Moscow? Brian Whitmore When British Prime Minister Gordon Brown set off to meet Russian President Dmitry Medvedev for the first time, he carried an agenda. For starters, Brown wanted to press the new Kremlin leader on the 2006 killing in London of Aleksandr Litvinenko. Virtually as the meeting began, the BBC was airing allegations that the Russian state appeared to have orchestrated the former security officer's death by radiation poisoning.
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