As a House Natural Resources subcommittee was blasting the Obama administration's ocean policy at a field hearing in Alaska, committee Chairman Doc Hastings of Washington issued a subpoena for records of how Interior Secretary Ken Salazar decided to impose a moratorium on federal offshore oil and gas leasing after the Deepwater Horizon blowout. Salazar called it a "distraction." Hastings said it was a pity the Secretary was not living up to his pledge of transparency.
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