Will President Bush VETO the bill to stop filling the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve?

I see that both the House and Senate held symbolic votes on the subject: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080513/ap_on_go_co/congress_energy_18 However, to the best of my knowledge, neither house of Congress has cobbled together legislation to vote on. Much less passed it on to the other house to vote. More info, please? Do you have a specific House or Senate resolution number you're referring to?

Again...there is no bill before either house of Congress concerning the strategic oil reserve. This should be voided. Perhaps be re-introduced if and when a bill is passed by both Houses and sent to the President.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/13/congress.oil/index.html - references an amendment to a bill that both the house and senate voted on and bush is expected to VETO.

Also your reading is incorrect. it is not a symbolic vote in the story you read and sight; "Still the votes were symbolic, in their strong bipartisan support, of lawmakers' frustrations at not being able to agree on anything more substantive in response to public anger over near $4 a gallon gasoline and oil prices in the $125 a barrel range." the test reads the vote is "symbolic of the strong bipartisan support", not that the vote is symbolic.
As from the CNN story I read "Since the two measures came to vote in different formats -- the Senate voted on an amendment while the House had a stand-alone bill -- lawmakers will have to merge the two and approve them again. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, said he hoped that would happen as early as next week." In my humble opinion your incorrect.

Per CNN the House had a bill the Senate had an amendment.

Strategic Petroleum Reserve, temporarily halt oil shipments to S.A.4737 to S.2284 / H.R.6022
From:
http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/legislative/b_three_sections_with_teasers/active_leg_page.htm

Know your source read your source, do the backup research to write your story, Jayson Blair should have thought of it too.

The only other problem i see is bush went to the middle east, so he'll be out of office for the next week or so. I don't see him making a press statement on this bill. Within the week.

*chuckles* no need to get snippy. I simply asked for a bill or resolution that you were referring to. (14 hours ago). Since you still haven't provided that information, are we to assume you are referring to H.R.6022 and S.AMDT.4737 to S.2284? If so, one of these has to be found acceptable to the other house of Congress and ratified by that house. That being said, there is not yet a bill for the President to sign or veto. In my humble opinion

A specific bill was passed YESTERDAY and made front page headlines on the Dallas Morning News:

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/nation/stories/051408dnbusoilcongress.faaca3d4.html

Why was this voided??

I also wonder why this was voided:
Here is but a small sampling of about 1500 stories on the subject - per Google news search:
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&sourceid=mozclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&ncl=1211570355
Please reconsider your decision to void this question - Thanks

Senate sends oil-reserve bill to president
The Associated Press - 6 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate late Wednesday approved and sent to the White House legislation directing President Bush to temporarily halt oil shipments into ...

Congress Rebukes Bush Over Oil Stockpile
Wall Street Journal Blogs, NY - 22 hours ago
By STEPHEN POWER and IAN TALLEY WASHINGTON -- The Senate and House each voted overwhelmingly to force the Bush administration to stop acquiring oil to store ...

Congress votes to stop filling oil reserve
San Francisco Chronicle, USA - May 14, 2008
The House and Senate voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to temporarily stop filling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, a response to public anger over rising oil ...

Senate votes to suspend oil going to US stockpile
Atlanta Journal Constitution, USA - May 13, 2008
By H. JOSEF HEBERT AP Washington — The Senate, in a direct challenge to President Bush, voted Tuesday to temporarily halt the shipment of thousands of ...

Senate Votes to Stop Filling Reserve
New York Times, United States - May 13, 2008
By DAVID STOUT WASHINGTON — The Senate demanded almost unanimously on Tuesday that President Bush halt the shipment of oil to the country’s strategic ...

Senate Rebukes Bush On Energy Policy
CBS News, NY - May 13, 2008
By Daniel W. Reilly (The Politico) The Senate issued a strong, bipartisan rebuke to President Bush on energy policy Tuesday morning, voting 97-1 in favor of ...
Senate Calls for SPR Halt

Wall Street Journal - May 13, 2008
By IAN TALLEY WASHINGTON -- As crude continued to trade at record levels near $125 a barrel, the Senate on Tuesday passed legislation that could force the ...

Senate OKs halting deliveries to US oil reserve
Reuters - May 13, 2008
By Tom Doggett WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The US Senate voted on Tuesday to suspend oil deliveries to the country's Strategic Petroleum Reserve until crude ...

Abdullah, can you spare some gas?
Baltimore Sun, United States - May 13, 2008
by Matthew Hay Brown As President Bush prepares for his trip this week to the Middle East, the Democratic Senate leadership is asking him to prevail on the ...
Lawmakers want to end oil shipments to US reserve

The Associated Press - May 13, 2008
WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid daily bipartisan sniping over high gas prices, Democrats and Republicans appear to agree on at least one thing: With oil over $120 a ...

The Why of Chokingly High Oil Prices: Bush Together with Saudi ...
Yahoo! News - May 12, 2008
OPEC thumbing its nose at George W. Bush's lame plea to his very dear friend, Saudi King Abdullah to pump more oil. This in spite of being are considered ...

Informify, CO - 6 hours ago
SYMBOLIC MEASURE? Tuesday the US Senate voted 97–1 to stop purchasing oil to pump into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). The House agreed, passing an ...

Hi everyone,

When I'd read the market comments I think I misinterpreted the news story that I looked at. I thought the House and Senate had similar bills but that they hadn't reached joint committee stage to come up with one bill to send to the President. I voided this too quickly as when I voided it I was not aware that a vote was occurring in the House regarding the bill. I'd asked myunion to redo the market citing a specific bill but it was to late because the House had already passed the bill. My foul up here and I apologize for that.

Apologies

Ryan
Hubdub US Politics Content Editor

To all that wonder why this question was voided.

It was voided because of the first post and the admin did not read any further or perform enough research to be able to tell the difference from missinformed individuals or whatnots.

News from the 16th:
US halts new shipments to strategic oil reserve

6 days ago

WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States is halting shipments to its strategic oil reserve for the second half of the year after Congress passed a bill calling for the suspension, the Energy Department said Friday.

As oil prices hit new highs near 128 dollars a barrel, the Energy Department announced it had not signed a six-month contract for deliveries to the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), the world's largest stockpile of government-owned emergency crude oil.

The decision affects up to 13 million barrels of crude oil, the department said in a statement.

President George W. Bush, who had resisted lawmakers' calls for the suspension, will not veto the bill, White House spokesman Scott Stanzel told AFP.