$1.5 Billion Giveaway Secretly Slipped into Energy Bill, "benefiting oil and gas companies, Halliburton, and Sugar Land, Texas"!!!!

Dirty-rotten-no-good-sons-of-bast*rds.

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$1.5 Billion Giveaway Secretly Slipped into Energy Bill, Waxman Says
By Rep. Henry Waxman
YubaNet.com

Wednesday 27 July 2005

In a letter to Speaker Hastert, Rep. Waxman writes that after the energy legislation was closed to further amendment in the recently concluded conference, a $1.5 billion provision benefiting oil and gas companies, Halliburton, and Sugar Land, Texas, was mysteriously inserted in the text.

The text of the letter is below:

The Honorable J. Dennis Hastert
Speaker
US House of Representatives
H232 Capitol
Washington, DC 20515-6501

Dear Mr. Speaker:

I am writing to draw to your attention a provision in the Energy Conference Report that raises serious procedural and substantive concerns. At its essence, this provision is a $1.5 billion giveaway to the oil industry, Halliburton, and Sugar Land, Texas. 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. Before the final energy legislation is brought to the House floor, this provision should be deleted.


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