Showing posts with label BP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BP. Show all posts
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Bachmann Backs BP
Bachmann backs BP oil spill
Bill O’Reilly Challenges Rep. Michele Bachmann On Her Claim $20B BP Account Is ‘Extortion’
Bill O’Reilly Challenges Rep. Michele Bachmann On Her Claim $20B BP Account Is ‘Extortion’
Rep. Joe Barton wasn’t the only member of Congress uncomfortable with the government agreeing with BP to put $20 billion into an escrow fund for claims of the victims of the BP oil disaster. Congresswoman Michele Bachmann expressed some concern with the account also, calling for BP not to be the government’s “chumps” and warning about federal overreach. She visited Bill O’Reilly last night, who did not sympathize with Bachmann or BP in the least...more
Rep. Joe Barton wasn’t the only member of Congress uncomfortable with the government agreeing with BP to put $20 billion into an escrow fund for claims of the victims of the BP oil disaster. Congresswoman Michele Bachmann expressed some concern with the account also, calling for BP not to be the government’s “chumps” and warning about federal overreach. She visited Bill O’Reilly last night, who did not sympathize with Bachmann or BP in the least...more
Michelle Bachmann: Damn right we’re concerned about a slush fund!
Michelle Bachmann: Damn right we're concerned about a slush fund!
Michelle Bachmann: Damn right we’re concerned about a slush fund!
It takes a woman!… Meanwhile Pence, Cantor, and Boehner run for the hills…
Let's see where the money goes!
[The Hill] — Lawmakers’ concerns that a $20 billion relief fund could be used for the Obama administration’s political purposes are legitimate concerns, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) said Friday.
A day after a top Republican, Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), apologized to the CEO of BP for the government’s efforts to force the company to create a fund to pay out claims to victims of the Gulf oil spil, Bachmann defended worries that the account could turn into — in Barton’s words — a “slush fund.”
“I think that part of the concern that many members of Congress had are that the $20 billion fund not become political, because we have very recent evidence that it could be. We have another oil spill fund that the Democrats just a few weeks ago tried to tap to use to pay unemployment benefits,” Bachmann said during an appearance on Fox News. “So it’s certainly reasonable and legitimate for members of Congress to be concerned that an oil spill fund goes specifically, 100 percent to make the victims of this environmental tragedy whole.”
Bachmann said that Barton’s remarks were only on his own behalf and that she thought that his subsequent apologies for his original remarks made clear that BP was responsible for the spill and making its victims whole.
Michelle Bachmann: Damn right we’re concerned about a slush fund!
It takes a woman!… Meanwhile Pence, Cantor, and Boehner run for the hills…
Let's see where the money goes!
[The Hill] — Lawmakers’ concerns that a $20 billion relief fund could be used for the Obama administration’s political purposes are legitimate concerns, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) said Friday.
A day after a top Republican, Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), apologized to the CEO of BP for the government’s efforts to force the company to create a fund to pay out claims to victims of the Gulf oil spil, Bachmann defended worries that the account could turn into — in Barton’s words — a “slush fund.”
“I think that part of the concern that many members of Congress had are that the $20 billion fund not become political, because we have very recent evidence that it could be. We have another oil spill fund that the Democrats just a few weeks ago tried to tap to use to pay unemployment benefits,” Bachmann said during an appearance on Fox News. “So it’s certainly reasonable and legitimate for members of Congress to be concerned that an oil spill fund goes specifically, 100 percent to make the victims of this environmental tragedy whole.”
Bachmann said that Barton’s remarks were only on his own behalf and that she thought that his subsequent apologies for his original remarks made clear that BP was responsible for the spill and making its victims whole.
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