Senators Cantwell & Lautenberg Demand Oil Executives Testify Under Oath

[RedEarth]

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) will lead Senate Democrats TODAY in demanding that oil company executives return to Congress and testify under oath in light of ongoing concerns of gas price-gouging by oil companies at the expense of hard-working American families. They will also call on the Justice Department to investigate into the alleged false statements made at a joint Senate Energy and Commerce Committee Hearing last week.

(that's the entire post from The American Prospect)

http://www.prospect.org/weblog/archives/2005/11/index.html#008359

[flakey_foont]

1. Damn right they should testify under oath!

[superconnected]

2. Good, our republican-democrat senator is concerned with gas gouging.

Apparently she's not on the take with the oil companies.

Therefore one of her major private funders must be paying to much in gas for his company OR she grew a conscience. I'll guess it's one of her private funders.

[BOSSHOG]

3. Please Ted Stevens rant and rave again

and go on record opposing them having to be sworn in. Whats the problem ted, are you afraid they'll tell the truth or are you afraid they'll lie?

[acmejack]

4. Afraid they will tell the truth about him!

[leesa]

15. To Ted truth is like sunlight to a vampire.

[imported_dem]

5. They damn well should be under oath

In a court room defending criminal charges against them.

[durrrty libby]

6. Am I just naïve?

Baseball players must swear to tell the truth, but not gasbags. Why? Shouldn’t it be a given that everyone testifying before congress, tell the truth?

[0007]

7. This is an outrage. More tax breaks for the Oil Companies?

America will wake up over this one folks. I guarantee it!!

[SammyWinstonJack]

8. Gas prices here are dropping as fast as they rose.

Imagine that? :rofl: $2.06 for unleaded, two days ago, $2.16, two days before that $2.25. At this rate, we might see $1.99 by weeks end. That should satisfy the bushbots.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

9. Talk of a Windfall Profits Tax starts circulating and BOOM!

the bottom falls out of gas prices. An amazing coincidence.

[SammyWinstonJack]

10. Yeah! what a coinky dink! Amazing ain't it?

[HamstersFromHell]

11. I posted this before in another thread...

Same "coincidence" that dropped gas prices from $2.72 to $2.44 here on the very morning that the oil companies were due to release their quarterly profit reports. Biggest drop in prices yet...they've been heading downward since, but not at a 26 cents a day pace.

[DeepModem Mom]

12. kick

[Javaman]

13. Even before I opened this thread, I knew it was Democrats that demanded it

Repukes can't think outside the fundie box.

[David Zephyr]

14. OK, folks. This is a real winner for Dems with the public. Spread the word

Bring 'em back and swear their asses in under oath. Make 'em explain why they lied to Congress.]

And most of all, expose the Republicans as the petro-lackeys that they are to our gasgouged citizens.

[corporatemedia]

16. Contact Sen Boxer - urge an online petition demanding the truth. eom