Waxman: $1.5 Billion Giveaway to Oil Industry, Halliburton in Energy Bill

[kerrygoddess]

Henry Waxman: $1.5 Billion Giveaway to Oil Industry, Halliburton and Sugarland, TX Slipped into Energy Bill
July 27th, 2005

Rep. Henry Waxman sent a letter to Speak of the House Dennis Hastert today, asking how did a $1.5 Billion giveaway to Oil Industry, Halliburton and Sugarland, TX get secretly slipped into the Energy Bill?

Read the letter here.

http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=85

[gademocrat7]

1. This has bugman's prints all over it.

how much more money does dickie's firm need?????

[kerrygoddess]

3. No kidding...

Ain't this a bitch!

[Pirate Smile]

4. You are correct! Look at this from Think Progress:

"DeLay Still Up To Dirty Tricks
Tom DeLay thinks the federal treasury is his personal piggy bank. DeLay slipped "a $1.5 billion giveaway to the oil industry, Halliburton, and Sugar Land, Texas" into the energy bill.

But this isn't a normal case of government pork. DeLay has completely dispensed with the democratic process. From a letter Rep. Henry Waxman just sent Speaker Dennis Hastert:

The provision was inserted into the energy legislation after the conference was closed, so members of the conference committee had no opportunity to consider or reject this measure.

The $1.5 billion won't be administered by the government by a private consortium in DeLay's district:

The subtitle appears to steer the administration of 75% of the $1.5 billion fund to a private consortium located in the district of Majority Leader Tom DeLay. Ordinarily, a large fund like this would be administered directly by the government.

Hastert and DeLay need to explain themselves immediately. No member of Congress who takes taxpayer dollars seriously should vote for the energy bill until this matter is resolved.

http://thinkprogress.org/2005/07/27/delay-dirty-tricks/

[kerrygoddess]

5. Waxman is on top of so much...

Got to love him!

[SpiralHawk]

2. Republican corruption. Tom Delay engineered this giveaway of

money from the US people to Halliburton. Stinkeroo.

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. It stinks