Future Energy Act bill passed, 88-11. [HR 4, Vote 94, 4/25/02; Associated Press, 4/25/02; Associated Press, 4/26/02] XXXX Voted For Final Passage Of The FY 2002 Energy And Water Development Appropriations Bill. In 2001, XXXX voted for final passage, as amended, of the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Bill for fiscal year 2002 (H.R. 2311). The bill would provide $25.450 billion in new budget authority for fiscal year 2002 to the Department of Defense's Civil Corps of Engineers, to the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation, to the relevant offices within the Department of Energy, and to related independent agencies and commissions. It also expressed the sense of the Senate that conferees should increase the amounts provided in the bill for the Yucca Mountain Program to a level closer to the amount provided in the House-passed bill. The bill passed, 97-2. [HR 2311, Vote 240, 7/19/01] ANWR AND OIL DRILLING The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: XXXX Approved FY07 Budget That Allowed Drilling in ANWR. In March 2006, XXXX voted for the $2.8 trillion FY07 Budget Resolution which, among other things, cleared the way for oil drilling in ANWR. [Vote 74, 3/16/06; Washington Post, 3/18/06; Anchorage Daily News, 3/17/06; Los Angeles Times, 3/17/06]  XXXX Voted to Approve Drilling in ANWR. In March 2006, XXXX to establish a fund to pave the way for drilling in ANWR. The amendment would have created a reserve fund to collect receipts from lease sales in ANWR and directed $150 million a year from the fund for five years to pay for programs under the Energy Policy Act. [Vote 72, 3/16/06] XXXX Voted For Defense Appropriations Bill That Contained Authorization for Drilling in ANWR. XXXX voted to end debate on the FY 2006 Defense Appropriations bill conference report on the bill. Besides paying for the defense budget the bill also authorized drilling in ANWR. After attaching the drilling provision to the must pass Defense bill, “Republicans held a clear majority for passage of the legislation that combined ANWR with defense spending, but Democrats used the Senate rules to raise a 60-vote hurdle.” [Vote 364, 12/21/05; AP, 12/20/05]  XXXX Voted to Keep Drilling in ANWR in Defense Appropriations Bill. In December 2005, XXXX voted to keep a provision for drilling in ANWR in appropriations bill. XXXXX voted against a measure instructing the Clerk of the House to remove the drilling provision from the final Defense Appropriations Bill conference report. [Vote 365, 12/21/05] XXXX Backed Budget Package That Authorized Drilling in ANWR. In November 2005, XXXX voted for a budget reconciliation package that authorized drilling in ANWR. [Vote 303, 11/3/05; Los Angeles Times, 11/4/05; New York Times, 11/4/05]  In 2005, XXXX Voted for ANWR Drilling. In March 2005, XXXX supported oil-drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge by voting against an amendment by Senator Maria Cantwell to eliminate drilling from the 2006 budget. [AP, 3/16/05; Vote 52, 3/16/05; Nashua Telegraph, 3/18/05] XXXX Voted To Allow Drilling In Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. On March 19, 2003, XXXX voted against preventing oil drilling in ANWR. Environmentalists contended drilling there would jeopardize a pristine area valued for its wildlife. [Vote 59, 3/19/03; AP, 3/19/03] XXXX Voted to Drill in ANWR. In 2002, XXXX voted to invoke cloture on an amendment that would allow for oil and gas development in a portion of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge if the president certifies to Congress that production in the area is in the nation's economic and security interests. It would limit the amount of surface disturbances to 2,000 acres, impose an export ban on the oil produced from the refuge with the exception of Israel, and designate an additional 1.5 million acres as wilderness in exchange for opening to drilling approximately 1.5 102