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Radanovich's office said the congressman was in transit and not immediately available Thursday.

House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio, calling for more domestic oil production, declared, ''right at this moment some 60 miles or less off the coast of Key West, Fla., China has the green light to drill for oil.''

''Even China recognizes that oil and natural gas is readily available off our shores, thanks to Fidel Castro,'' complained Rep. Roy Blunt of Missouri, a leader of a GOP energy task force.

Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., accused the Republicans of pushing oil development by ''scaring up the ghosts of communism and xenophobia'' and ''perpetuating a myth that China is drilling off the coast of Florida.''

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