31.   Also Sunday, Norton played down a report in Time magazine that Bush senior adviser Karl Rove said the administration would not push for drilling in the arctic refuge.

32.   Billions of barrels of oil could lie under the Arctic refuge, but no drilling is allowed there.

33.   Bush has acknowledged that opening the Arctic refuge to drilling may be a hard sell in Congress.

34.   But Democrats oppose drilling in the Arctic refuge and have pledged to block it.

35.   Environmentalists and their allies in Congress have successfully thwarted efforts to open the arctic refuge to oil companies several times in recent years.

36.   He said ways have to be found for more domestic production, including opening up an Alaska arctic refuge to oil drilling.

37.   In the next few weeks, Murkowski and Young are expected to craft language for the budget plan that would open the arctic refuge to drilling.

38.   Joining a series of energy tax measures and a call for drilling in an Arctic refuge, the latest energy bill to emerge from committee focuses on conservation.

39.   Markey repeatedly cited the academy findings, arguing if automakers made these improvements drilling in an Arctic refuge would not even have to be debated.

40.   Norton visited the Arctic refuge in late March when it was covered with snow and ice.