The Senator made reference to a Wall Street Journal article where a former official from ARCO said--was this under oath or was it just a public statement in terms of their efforts to try to reduce the royalty payments to the Federal Government for this private company to drill oil on public land and make a profit?
Questioning the credibility of a statement regarding royalty payments from oil drilling on public land.
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