House GOP challenges Pelosi for gas price plan

[Algorem]

Source: The Hill


By Jackie Kucinich
Posted: 04/22/08 07:14 PM

House Republican leaders on Tuesday challenged Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to release a plan to lower gas prices that they say Democrats touted when they were in the minority.

“Two years ago this week, you stated that House Democrats had a ‘commonsense plan’ to ‘lower gas prices,’ ” the letter said. “In light of the skyrocketing gasoline prices affecting working families and every sector of our struggling economy, we are writing today to respectfully request that you reveal this ‘commonsense plan’ so we can begin work on responsible solutions to help ease this strain.”

The letter is signed by Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio), Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), Conference Chairman Adam Putnam (R-Fla.), Policy Chairman Thaddeus McCotter (R-Mich.) as well as other members of leadership: Reps. Kay Granger (R-Texas), John Carter (R-Texas), Tom Cole (R-Okla.) and Eric Cantor (R-Va.).

In a press release dated April 24, 2006, Pelosi said, “Democrats have a commonsense plan to help bring down skyrocketing gas prices by cracking down on price gouging, rolling back the billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies, tax breaks and royalty relief given to big oil and gas companies, and increasing production of alternative fuels.” The letter cited policies put in place during the GOP control of Congress that the Speaker claimed had raised prices on American consumers to benefit oil companies...



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[Ian David]

1. Ooh! Them's fightin' words! Let's see if leadership is back on the table again. n/t

[lonestarnot]

5. She has too many fucking tables. She's probably hiding under one of them.

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. This from the party whose leader has no idea how much gas costs.

Why am I not surprised?

[msongs]

3. The Plan is to get republicans out of the white house and congress :-) nt

[USA_1]

4. On C-SPAN Tonight ...

Right wing Republicans such as Minnesota's Michelle Bachmann were bullshitting before the Congress about how they hate new taxes. Not one word was spoken about how Republican wars and corporate welfarism is responsible for that crap.

[magellan]

6. Hm, what happened to "jawboning OPEC members to lower prices"?

Gas prices have been rising at meteoric rates since the GOP took the reins under Bush**. Odd how they're now looking to the Dems for a solution to a crisis their leader bragged he could fix with a phone call.

Repubs: failures at everything except destroying things and blaming others for the bad outcome.