Congress skipped town on Friday without passing comprehensive energy legislation or lifting the moratorium on offshore drilling. Despite Republican objections, Democratic congressional leaders opted for a five-week vacation rather than passing legislation to ease pain at the pump. But as Politico‘s Patrick O’Connor reported Friday night, some lawmakers refused to take adjournment for an answer.
A small band of Republicans, protesting the decision to adjourn without an oil vote, started to speak from the well – even though the lights weren’t on, the microphones were turned off and most of their colleagues were scrambling to catch flights out of town.
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