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Frank Pallone: But there is a pattern with the Vice President. He is never wrong. He is never wrong. Now, the 9-11 Commission came out…

On the recordJuly 13, 2004
But there is a pattern with the Vice President. He is never wrong. He is never wrong. Now, the 9-11 Commission came out and said that there is no tie between al Qaeda and Iraq, and the Vice President said, I have information here that I never gave them. So they said, well, give us the information. And he said, no, I am right, because I know what I have in my information here. I mean there is a pattern of behavior here that says, when I say something, it is right, and nobody can change it, nobody can challenge it. The same is true with holding the meetings in his White House office. I mean when we have all, all the leadership, including Ken Lay, I mean this is the guy that took Enron into the ground and put enormous costs on people all over the west in this country because of the manipulation of what they did; when you have those people in your office and you have a meeting to design the energy policy for the United States and then do not even think you have to tell us who was there, much less what you talked about or what was decided.
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Frank Pallone
Democratic · New Jersey

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Addressing the Vice President's behavior and the lack of transparency in energy policy meetings.

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