Offshore Drilling Bill Up For House Vote

A renewed push to drill off of Virginia's coast is expected to come up for a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives today.
The Restarting American Offshore Leasing Now Act would direct the secretary of the interior to conduct offshore off of the state's coast within one year of the bill's enactment.
It would also jump-start lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico but exclude any tract off Virginia that would conflict with military operations.
Virginia's lease sale was scheduled for this year but delayed until at least 2017 after the April 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the worst offshore spill in American history.
In an op-ed column to run today in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Gov. Bob McDonnell urges Congress to support the offshore leasing act and other upcoming measures addressing the country's
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