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Congressional Record—Senate S12880 S12880 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE November 16, 2005 and too little. We lost American sol- real division within the administra- officials from ExxonMobil, Conoco be- diers’ lives and many were injured be- tion, and I would walk outside the Sen- fore its merger with Phillips, Shell Oil, cause we did not have the right equip- ate Intelligence Committee room and and BP America met in the White ment in place. hear statements made by the Vice House complex with Cheney aides who So now what we are saying is that President saying: There is no debate. It were developing the national energy this administration must be held ac- is all about nuclear weapons. policy, parts of which became law and countable, to report to Congress every Now, I could not repeat what I had parts of which are still being debated. 90 days to tell us in Congress the heard in the Senate Intelligence Com- It comes as no surprise. We suspected progress that is being made in pro- mittee. I was prohibited from saying it as much. A lawsuit was filed to specifi- tecting our troops, in preparing the publicly. I knew what he said was false. cally determine whether the oil com- Iraqis to defend their own country, in It is one of the reasons I voted against pany executives wrote this Energy bill. moving that country toward stability, that resolution to go to war in Iraq. That lawsuit was fought all the way to and in moving us to the point where But again and again the Vice Presi- the Supreme Court, and the Supreme American soldiers can start coming dent was taking information, intel- Court ruled that the White House home. That was passed yesterday, 79 to ligence information, giving it to the didn’t have to tell the American people 19. American people selectively, making who was involved. Now this memo tells As the President stood on Veterans certain that it was always the strong- us. Day and in an unprecedented political est spin toward the immediate need for The reason it is important is that speech attacked his Democratic critics a war, and that is how we ended up in last week the executives of these oil for saying they did not agree with his the position we are in today. companies came before Congress. You war policy, this Senate, on a bipartisan It is a lot easier to get into a war probably heard about the hearing be- basis yesterday, 79 to 19, said to the than it is to get out of one. And we fore the Senate Commerce Committee. President: Your policy in Iraq must have learned that with the cost in Senator Maria Cantwell of Washington change. We need to start looking to human lives and the cost to America’s insisted that these oil company execu- bring American soldiers home. And 2006 Treasury. tives be sworn in and testify under is the year to begin that process in ear- f oath, as the tobacco company execu- nest. tives did a few years ago. But Senator AMERICA’S ENERGY CRISIS That is why it was a historic vote. Of STEVENS, chairman of the committee, course, as we look at the statements Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, the sec- refused to allow them to be sworn in. made in the lead-up to the invasion of ond story on the front pages of this Why? So they couldn’t be held account- Iraq, there is a recurring theme. It morning’s newspapers relates to the able if they didn’t tell the truth. turns out that the major sources of in- energy crisis in America. You do not Unfortunately, some of the state- telligence that were passing through have to describe that to any American ments made in responses to questions the administration and to the Amer- who has filled up their gas tank in the by Senator LAUTENBERG raised serious ican people were passing across the last several months. And in the weeks questions as to whether those oil com- desk of Vice President CHENEY. ahead, when you start paying your pany executives were candid and forth- Lieutenant Colonel Wilkerson, chief home heating bills, if you live in one of coming in terms of their involvement of staff to Secretary of State Colin the colder parts of America, you will in this very bill, the Energy bill, which Powell, referred to a cabal, a cabal led see the energy problems we are facing. this memorandum tells us was pre- by Vice President CHENEY and Sec- Of course, it reflects the fact we have pared with the oil company executives. retary of Defense Rumsfeld, a cabal no energy policy in this country. In the Once again, the special interests which set the stage for the invasion of White House, with the President and trumped America’s families and con- Iraq. The man speaking was not a par- Vice President, we have two men who sumers, businesses and farmers. The tisan Democrat. He was the chief of have long careers with the energy in- Energy bill was written with the Vice staff to the Secretary of State in the dustries and with oil companies, and President’s direction that rewarded oil Bush administration, Colin Powell. I the energy policy they are pushing re- companies at a time when we should think it makes clear that throughout flects it. have been sensitive to protecting the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq, our What did we have in the so-called En- American consumers. Unfortunately, it Vice President, RICHARD CHENEY, was ergy bill signed by the President just reflects what has been happening in making statements that did not reflect in August of this year? A $9 billion sub- this capital for too long. the truth of what was occurring in sidy to oil companies, a $9 billion sub- f Iraq. sidy to companies which are realizing Repeatedly, he said Iraq had links to record-breaking profits at this very LEWIS LIBBY INDICTMENT al-Qaida, and that was proven false. moment. Mr. DURBIN. The third issue is one Repeatedly, he said Iraq was an immi- Why in the world would we be send- which everyone is aware of; that is, the nent threat to the United States, and ing subsidies, Federal taxpayers’ dol- fact that for the first time in over a that was proven false. Repeatedly, Vice lars, to these oil companies at a mo- century, some high-level staffer in the President CHENEY said Iraq was trying ment in time when they are realizing White House has been indicted. Lewis to acquire nuclear weapons, and that the largest profits in history? I think ‘‘Scooter’’ Libby was indicted a few was proven false. every American knows why. When you weeks ago, charged with perjury and On ‘‘Meet the Press,’’ on March 16, go to the gas station to fill up your car obstruction of justice related to the 2003, the Vice President said: ‘‘And we or your truck, and you put that charge Valerie Plame affair. Everyone is believe he [Saddam Hussein] has, in on your credit card, the money from aware of it now. Joe Wilson, former fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons.’’ your credit card is going directly to Ambassador, sent to Africa to deter- False. the boardrooms of these oil companies mine whether assertions by the admin- In addition, there were statements that are realizing more money than istration about yellow cake uranium made about whether Iraq was trying to they ever have in history. coming from Africa to Iraq were true, acquire uranium from Africa, state- We wanted to know who wrote the reached the conclusion they were not. ments made by the Vice President administration’s energy bill, and we When he published that conclusion, he which turned out to be false, and state- could not find out. Neither the Presi- was attacked in the press by Robert ments, of course, relative to aluminum dent nor the Vice President, who was Novak in a column where Mr. Novak tubes. I knew something about that de- leading the effort to create this energy said two White House sources had told bate because as a member of the Sen- policy, would tell the American people him that Joseph Wilson’s wife Valerie ate Intelligence Committee, I listened who was part of it. Plame was a CIA agent. as the Department of Defense and the This morning’s front page story in In fact, she was an undercover agent Department of Energy debated whether the Washington Post tells us who was whose identity was being protected. these aluminum tubes were really all part of it. A document obtained by the But the White House, in an effort to about nuclear weapons. There was a Washington Post this week shows that discredit its critics and to silence VerDate Aug 31 2005 03:49 Jan 08, 2007 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00008 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\RECORDCX\T37X$J0E\S16NO5.REC S16NO5 mmaher on PROD1PC70 with CONG-REC-ONLINE November 16, 2005 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S12881 them, attacked Joe Wilson’s wife Val- home for documents, accusing him of point because recent history goes a erie Plame and, in the process, dis- passing American secrets to the Ira- long way in explaining why the Amer- closed the identity of a CIA agent. nians and endangering American ican people want us to examine every There is a question raised as to wheth- troops and security. He is currently portion of Judge Alito’s record with er that violates the law.
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