GOP brushes off Pelosi’s openness to drilling House Republicans on Tuesday quickly brushed aside Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s apparent willingness to allow a vote on offshore oil drilling. The rhetoric of the lawmakers, who have remained in Washington to protest Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) decision to not allow a vote on oil exploration in the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), signals that the GOP does not plan on letting go of its message that the Speaker should immediately return to Washington to reconvene the House. “If Speaker Pelosi is truly sincere about having a vote on deep-ocean oil and gas drilling to help bring down fuel costs, she should use her power as Speaker to call Congress back into session immediately and schedule a vote on the American Energy Act,” Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) said in a statement released Tuesday morning....