<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/89cc4d1a-8e12-4b7a-b4e8-a761a2b054e6/7B3E26F2-484E-44A8-8462-3274F75699F3/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/03/AR2008110303042.html" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/03/AR2008110303042.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.washingtonpost.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/03/AR2008110303042.html"><H1>Bush Ocean Plan Is Criticized</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/03/AR2008110303042.html"><DIV id="byline">By <A title="Send an e-mail to Juliet Eilperin" href="http://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/email/juliet+eilperin/">Juliet Eilperin</A></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/03/AR2008110303042.html"><A target="" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/George+W.+Bush?tid=informline">President Bush</A>'s vision for protecting two vast areas of the <A target="" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Pacific+Ocean?tid=informline">Pacific Ocean</A> from fishing and mineral exploitation, a move that would constitute a major expansion of his environmental legacy, is running into dogged resistance both inside and outside the <A target="" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/The+White+House?tid=informline">White House</A> and has placed his wife and his vice president on opposite sides of the issue.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/03/AR2008110303042.html"><P> <A target="" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Dick+Cheney?tid=informline">Vice President Cheney</A> and some officials in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands have argued that the plan could hurt the region's economy by barring fishing and energy exploration. 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