Harry Reid: “There is a companion bill, H.R. 2884, which already passed the House. We can bring it up here as it passed the House. It…”

“There is a companion bill, H.R. 2884, which already passed the House. We can bring it up here as it passed the House. It would go through very quickly. We believe that would take care of the immediate problems facing us--the home heating oil reserves and the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The problem we have, and the reason for the objection, is that to H.R. 2884 my friend from Alaska added some very--from our perspective-- very controversial oil royalties, among other things. So we believe if the home heating oil reserve is as important as we think it is--and we believe it is extremely important--and if the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is as important as we think it is, we should go with the House bill. We can do that in a matter of 5 minutes.”