In 2010, he voted in favor of ending a moratorium on deepwater drilling rigs that met certain safety standards.
The Pombo bill would end a longstanding federal moratorium on oil and gas drilling on the entire American coastline.
Ending an unofficial moratorium that began in July 1989, Brazil will pay about $500 million of interest due during the first quarter of next year.
The Soviet Union conducted an underground nuclear test today, ending an 18-month moratorium, but offered to stop again if the United States joined in.
Litchfield, in the northwest sector of the state, ended a six-month moratorium last August.
Their bid to end a 20-year moratorium on commercial whaling was never even brought to a vote.
Previously, the Soviets had conducted all of its atomic and hydrogen bomb explosions in the atmosphere, including more than fifty since ending a moratorium on testing.
China performs a nuclear test, ending a worldwide de facto moratorium.
Soviet authorities told American scientists today that the Soviet Union would detonate a nuclear device within several days, ending an 18-month moratorium on nuclear testing.
That ended a moratorium on stock purchases.