i think it will pass with a bipartisan vote, because, i think if you look as you showed our center senator, there is a bipartisan group of members of congress that know that supply and demand is a big part of the reason we are seeing an increase in the price of gasoline at the pump and frankly it is directly related to president obama s policy, a policy obama premium people are paying at the pump because he shut off known reserves and goes to saudi arabia and brazil and other countries to pleads with them to provide us oil and we want to create it here and lower the prices at the pump. heather: the president spoke at a town hall meeting, shot yesterday an aired early this morning and he said production in the u.s. is actually up, and is that true? why are prices so high then. we are seeing a reduction in production, but, even more importantly, they ve shut off all new exploration and we re not even bringing on-line the oil that would be out there next year and the year after beca
heather: in the meantime, in the house of representatives, lawmakers will vote on offshore drilling bills, and this is set to happen this afternoon. louisiana republican on the house action energy team and with you ill be voting on a bill to lift the moratorium on drilling today. what do you expect to happen with it? well, heather, we brought a package of bills to open up more areas of known reserves. we have billions of barrels of known energy reserves here in america and this administration shut them off to production and exploration and what we want to do is say, let s open up the known areas and put more supply out there to lower gas prices and create our studies showed we have an economic study that shows you create 250,000 jobs in america with the three bills we brought to increase supply of energy here in america. heather: all right, areas that you would start doing the drilling, would be off the coast of california and the gulf of mexico, and the east coast and you name it. w