Kendrick Meek: “Mr. Delahunt, you know what they have done? Anything the President said he wanted, they rubber-stamped it. Anything that…”

“Mr. Delahunt, you know what they have done? Anything the President said he wanted, they rubber-stamped it. Anything that the oil industry said that they wanted, they rubber-stamped it. Any problem where the American people says, why is the card stacked against me policy-wise, whether it be health care, whether it be prescriptions, what have you, they have rubber-stamped it. If you watched The Today Show just this morning, Mr. Delahunt, Mr. Ryan, Matt Lauer had the CEO of ExxonMobil on. Let me give credit to the CEO of ExxonMobil, because the other oil companies would not comment. One of the questions was, do you feel that the Republican majority in the Congress have turn-coated on you now? Have they switched on you now? Now they are running politically scared. Now they are willing to take windfall profits away from you. Now they are willing to go forth on price gouging legislation. Do you think they turned on you? The ExxonMobil CEO never answered the question. But it is very obvious, like you said, they are in charge. It is almost like the old saying, ``the buck stops here.'' The Republican majority doesn't want to admit to that now. Now they are writing letters saying, maybe we need to do this and maybe we need to do that. But these are the same individuals, our colleagues on the majority side of the aisle, that put all of this in motion. Now they are trying to act like they had nothing to do with it. ``Oh, my God, the oil prices are horrendous.…”