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Porter Goss: “Frankly, we should not be here on this issue today. But we are here as a result of an ineffectual Clinton-Gore energy…”

On the recordMarch 22, 2000
Frankly, we should not be here on this issue today. But we are here as a result of an ineffectual Clinton-Gore energy policy which has been very heavy on photo-ops, very heavy on grandstanding and very, very light in substance and has resulted in increased prices of gas at the service station for virtually every American. As the Energy Secretary's own point man freely admits, since March of 1998, in testimony before one of our committees here when they were expressing concern about this, OPEC has instituted three tiers of production cuts, three. Three times this has happened. None of these cuts were met with any resistance from the Clinton-Gore team at that time. And only now is Secretary Richardson, who has publicly stated that he was asleep at the switch on this, only now is he trying to play catch-up with our friends in the Middle East and elsewhere.
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Porter Goss
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Discussing the impact of the Clinton-Gore energy policy on gas prices.

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