{"id":6514,"date":"2006-02-02T12:46:20","date_gmt":"2006-02-02T17:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=6514"},"modified":"2006-02-02T12:46:20","modified_gmt":"2006-02-02T17:46:20","slug":"oil-execs-to-senate-dont-call-us-well-call-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/oil-execs-to-senate-dont-call-us-well-call-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil execs to Senate: Don&#8217;t call us; we&#8217;ll call you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last time the CEOs of the major oil companies were on the Hill for a Senate hearing, it didn&#8217;t go well. During a Senate Commerce Committee hearing over escalating energy prices, Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) asked the five CEOs if their company, or any of its representatives, participated in Vice President Cheney&#8217;s energy task force in 2001. They said they hadn&#8217;t, which became a tad controversial when a White House document surfaced showing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/11\/15\/AR2005111501842.html\">the opposite is true<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So now that the Senate has some new questions for the oil companies, executives have a new strategy: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/02-02-2006\/news\/wn_report\/story\/387763p-329055c.html\">stay away from the Hill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A day after President Bush declared America is &#8220;addicted&#8221; to oil, big oil execs thumbed their nose at a Senate hearing called yesterday to grill them about their record profits. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The Senate Judiciary Committee hearing was called to weigh the impact on prices of the oil industry&#8217;s consolidation to just a handful of companies.<\/p>\n<p>One of those companies, ExxonMobil, reported last week profits of $36 billion last year, the most ever by any U.S. company. But the execs begged off, saying they were busy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) responded, &#8220;If we need to issue subpoenas, we can do that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Any time now Arlen&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last time the CEOs of the major oil companies were on the Hill for a Senate hearing, it didn&#8217;t go well. During a Senate Commerce Committee hearing over escalating energy prices, Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) asked the five CEOs if their company, or any of its representatives, participated in Vice President Cheney&#8217;s energy task [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}