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cantwell.jpgSenate Votes to Drill in ANWR

The U.S. Senate on Wednesday voted to keep, in a broad federal budget legislation, the language that would open Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil drilling.

Neil Conan talks with Washington Senator Maria Cantwell, Interior Secretary Gale Norton and takes your calls.


Wyden and Smith both voted against this, as did Cantwell and Murray. Is ANWR drilling good for the Pacific Northwest?

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