Kendrick Meek: “Mr. Delahunt, that is the reason why we know it made number 6 on this chart. We want to make sure that we know it went…”

“Mr. Delahunt, that is the reason why we know it made number 6 on this chart. We want to make sure that we know it went to number 5. I want to make sure we believe in third-party validators here. I just pulled this out of my notebook here because I want to make sure while we are talking about this, Mr. Speaker, Washington Post, November 16, 2005, page 1, White House documents showed that executives from big oil companies met with Vice President Dick Cheney, Energy Task Force 2001, something long suspected by environmentalists but denied recently as of November, 2005. Last week, industry officials testified before Congress. The document obtained this week by the Washington Post shows that officials from Exxon Mobil Corporation, Conoco, before the merger with Phillips, Shell Oil Company, and BP of America met in a White House complex with Cheney aides who were developing a national energy policy, parts of which became law, and parts which are still being debated.”