FlyCaughtInTree wrote:

The Senate, in a rare show of intelligence, defeated a move by Senator
Ted Stevens of Alaska to open up the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge to
oil drilling. Senator, what part of *refuge* did you not understand?

Strange but I was struggling with this, I had seen the news reports on
the attempt to open up the ANWR but I also got an email from Ducks
Unlimited requesting it's members contact certain legislators to pass
the bill because it supposedly contained $1,000,000,000 for
conservation purposes.

Being a good American citizen, I did nothing.