Political Quotes

“the Senate yesterday took the first step toward repealing wasteful taxpayer subsidies to oil and gas companies. I was pleased my Republican colleagues joined Senate Democrats to move this debate forward. The country deserves to hear the truth about double dipping--double dipping--by oil companies. They take taxpayer money with one hand and raise gas prices with the other hand. There has never been a more perfect illustration of this than what has happened recently. The country deserves to hear the truth about these oil companies. But do not be fooled by last night's bipartisan vote. Senate Republicans would never, ever side with American taxpayers against Big Oil. It is against their nature. It is against their political philosophy, as indicated by the numerous votes they have taken against this. They proved it yesterday with rhetoric. They proved exactly what I have said. They proved it last year with nearly a party-line vote against legislation to hold back handouts to oil companies that were making record profits then. The records have been broken. There is a handful of those oil companies--one handful--that last year made $137 billion. Despite this rhetoric of the Republicans, Americans understand it will take more than a bumper-sticker slogan to stop the pain at the pump. We have to reduce the Nation's reliance on foreign oil. But we cannot drill our way to energy independence. We are doing better. We have done so well during the Obama years.…”