With Congress on Summer Break, Some Old-Fashioned Political Theater Over Oil Drilling
While Republicans give speeches to an adjourned House, Democrats try to defend a drilling moratorium
Posted August 8, 2008
Minority Leader John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, and other House Republicans during a rally on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol introducing their American Energy Act and call for a vote on the legislation before the August adjournment. (Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images)