Jerry nadler says the House Democrats have no intention of letting this go. We will have major hearings, he says, barr and mueller are just the first. We will call many other people. Well see who they are. Super. Everybody buckle up, were still on this ride, apparently. Look, the report revealed a number of truly damning episodes involving the president and his efforts to sabotage the investigation into Russian Election tampering. They include attempts to get Robert Mueller fired, attempts to unrecuse then attorney general jeff sessions, attempts to curry favor with then fbi director james comey, attempts to then blame the doj for comeys eventual firing. Attempts to get dni director to publicly exonerate trumps connections to russia. The good news is nearly a dozen people in the administration wouldnt carry out his requests to obstruct on his behalf. And in doing so, they saved him from himself and likely saved his presidency. Donald trump owes don mcgahn, james sessions, james comey,
Nancy pelosi crossed paths during the National Peace officers memorial day event outside the capitol yesterday. A bystander said he approached nancy pelosi and said did you bring your handcuffs . You know, its a good thing that we have an attorney general thats laughing at being held in contempt of congress and also laughing about the fact that, well, he committed perjury before congress. Hes hysterical. He thinks its a joke, thinks its funny. Its all a game and it comes in the context that the white house is shutting down any request from the white house committee. Youd like to think the attorney general views himself as independent from all that. As weve seen over the last month or two, hes not. Actually, hes laughing about breaking the law. Hes laughing about being held in contempt of congress. The white house is laughing. The attorney general is laughing about them breaking the law that requires the president of the United States, the irs, to turn over the president s tax returns t
Language included in the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPACT) relating to the use of diesel fuel in hydraulic fracturing (fracking) "is extremely unclear and is open to interpretation," making it unclear if the use of diesel fuel in fracking operations would be a violation of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), according to a Texas Railroad Commission (RRC) spokesman.
Saying that imposing a severance tax on growing natural gas production in the Marcellus Shale could hurt his state's natural gas industry, Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell on Monday announced that he was dropping the proposed 5% tax plan until at least next year.
Anadarko Petroleum Corp. has signed agreements for nominated capacity on a planned expansion of the Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline system to deliver volumes into Canadian and U.S. markets from the producer's planned Bear Head liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal, which is scheduled to start up in 2008.