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joeunderdog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-04 12:40 PM
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Edited on Tue Jan-20-04 12:50 PM by joeunderdog
U.S. Rep Jerry Costello has called for impeachment hearings against U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney during Congress' session that begins today.

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Costello questioned the award of billions of dollars of contracts to Cheney's former corporation Haliburton to extinguish fires and rebuild Iraq's oil infrastructure after the war.

"Can you imagine what the Republicans would be doing to a Democratic president who was a CEO of a company that now has gotten billions of dollars worth of contracts -- no-bid contracts -- without competition?" Costello, D-Belleville, was quoted as saying.

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The Los Angeles Times reported Saturday that Cheney spent last week duck hunting in Louisiana with one of the Supreme Court Justices who may decide the case -- U.S. Supreme Court Judge Antonin Scalia. Costello, who serves on the energy subcommittee, was elected to Congress in 1988.

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http://www.belleville.com/mld/newsdemocrat/7749791.htm
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sistersofmercy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-04 12:51 PM
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1. Metro St Louis, should be on our local news this evening and
will be in the Post, today or tomorrow. Also, what he didn't mention is that Cheney, as far as I know still hasn't "donated" his Halliburton stock options.
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