-Caveat Lector- http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,26722,00.html Dems Launch Investigations Into Bush's Handling of Energy Crisis FOX NEWS Friday, June 8, 2001 WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats decided to test their day-old majority mettle Thursday, launching two Government Affairs Committee investigations into the way President Bush is handling the California energy crisis and his decision to postpone several last-minute orders issued by President Clinton before he left office. Former vice presidential candidate Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., chose the day he took over the senate committee from its outgoing chairman, Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., to announce an investigation into the energy crunch and allegations that Bush and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission have been slow to react. "[FERC and the administration] have been following a theoretical, ideological model which is hostile to entering into the marketplace with price controls," Lieberman said Thursday. "I think that FERC has the authority to act and should have acted already to give more protection to the electricity customers of California," Lieberman declared. He also plans to lead an investigation into the President's decision to halt the implementation of Clinton's various eleventh-hour executive orders on the environment and consumer protection, including the controversial maximum arsenic levels in water and the ban on the construction of roads in national parks. "In doing so, we may put the brakes on any additional plans the administration has to roll back other environmental or consumer protection regulations," said Lieberman, who fought and lost an exhaustive battle with former Vice President Al Gore against Bush for the presidency just six months ago. Nevertheless, Lieberman says the investigations are not retribution for the many investigations launched against the Clinton/Gore administration when the GOP had control of the senate. Thompson's committee had played a role in many of those probes. - Fox News' Carl Cameron contributed to this report. ======================================================= Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends ======================================================= <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
