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Debbie Wasserman Schultz: “Okay. I wasn't quite certain because if you listen to the rhetoric on the other side of the aisle, they talk a good…”

On the recordDecember 19, 2007
Okay. I wasn't quite certain because if you listen to the rhetoric on the other side of the aisle, they talk a good game. But when it comes to action, backing up the words with action, just like when the President stood in that rostrum a couple of years ago and laid out the notion that we should end America's addiction to foreign oil, but then promptly pushed an energy bill through the then Republican Congress that gave away those $14 billion in subsidies to the oil industry that we're now trying to repeal. That was just unbelievable. And I can't use certain words that I think should be applicable to that situation because it violates the House rules, so I won't. But I think we all know what the definition of saying something and doing another actually is.
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Democratic · Florida

Editor's note · Context

Criticizing the inconsistency between political rhetoric and actions regarding energy policy.

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