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Archive Home > 2008 > May > 23 > Blaming Big Oil

Blaming Big Oil

With the arrival of the summer travel season, lawmakers engaged in what is becoming an annual spectacle — the pummeling of oil execs over gas prices and profits

By David M. Herszenhorn / The Bulletin
May 23, 2008

WASHINGTON — Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz peered down at the executives from the nation’s biggest oil companies, arrayed before the House Judiciary Committee like five targets in a carnival dunk tank, wearing dark suits and ties instead of swim trunks.

It was the Thursday....

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