http://www.youtube.com/watc h?v=QQf6QSyvqZ8

Watching the Meet the Bloggers w/ Reid segment from 7/25/2008 at about 0:50 min into the below video segment Reid mentions that Senator Wyden of Oregon proposed a countermeasure on drilling in ANWR which stipulated that any production can only be sold within the U.S. which 16 senators including Mccain voted against

Is this perhaps the same type of proposal Reid has recently just introduced here, as a means of calling the Republicans bluff to shame them into submission because it doesn't quite fully benefit GOPs "energy" constituency. In turn, it also gives the Dems the chance to grab MSM headlines with 'GOP votes No on drilling because Dems propose production remains within US'...or something like that

http://www.youtube.com/watc h?v=QQf6QSyvqZ8