Gore: Energy Glutton, Toxic Polluter, Now Won't Obey Senate Rules

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Tuesday, March 20, 2007 10:07 p.m. EDT
Gore Won't Behave By Senate Rules

The following release was posted Tuesday night to the web log of Senator
James Inhofe:

From behind the scenes on Capitol Hill: Former Vice President Al Gore,
despite being given major preferential treatment, has violated the Senate
Environment & Public Works Committee's (EPW) hearing rules.

Gore first demanded to be granted an unprecedented 30 minute opening
statement to the Senate EPW Committee for Wednesday's (March 21) global
warming hearing scheduled for 2:30 pm ET.

The GOP minority on the EPW committee agreed to the 30 minute opening
statement.

But then Gore demanded a waiver of the EPW committee's 48 hour rule that
requires all witnesses before EPW to submit their testimony in advance. The
GOP minority on the EPW committee then agreed to waive the 48 hour rule in
favor of allowing Gore to submit his testimony 24 hours before the hearing.

But in a breaking news development on Capitol Hill, the former Vice
President has violated the new 24 hour deadline extension by failing to
submit his testimony - even with the new time extension granted to Gore.

As of 8pm ET Tuesday evening, the testimony still has not been received by
EPW, a clear violation of committee rules.

The word on Capitol Hill says not to expect Gore's testimony to the Senate
EPW committee until Wednesday (March 21) - the day of the hearing.

It appears that Gore does not believe the same rules apply to him that apply
to every other Senate EPW witness.

The question looms on Capitol Hill: Is Gore delaying the submission of his
testimony until the very last moment because he fears it will give members
of the EPW committee time to scrutinize it for accuracy?

Stay tuned...



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