Message-ID: <17861737.1075844217160.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 11:20:00 -0700 (PDT) From: ralph@censtrat.com To: mpalmer@enron.com, rshapiro@enron.com Subject: FW: FYI... Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: Ralph Reed X-To: "Mark Palmer (E-mail)" , "Richard Shapiro (E-mail)" X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \Richard_Shapiro_June2001\Notes Folders\All documents X-Origin: SHAPIRO-R X-FileName: rshapiro.nsf assume you saw this. there's more of this coming from the Senate side soon and we will need a strategy. > from today's Congress Daily... > > > ENERGY > Dems Ask Burton To Investigate Cheney's Energy Task Force > House Government Reform Committee Democrats Tuesday wrote > Government Reform Chairman Burton to urge him to look into Vice > President Cheney's energy task force, which met privately with > major Republican donors in formulating the Bush administration's > energy policy, the Associated Press reported. Government Reform > ranking member Henry Waxman, D-Calif., asked Burton to conduct a > hearing on what took place at the Cheney group's secret meetings > and the identities of all participants. "The Cheney task force > has conducted its meetings in private, and reportedly has > obtained input from private citizens and groups, including > political contributors," Waxman wrote in the letter. The AP > reported last month that GOP contributors - including executives > from power wholesaler Enron and the Edison Electric Institute, > the utility industry lobbying group - had met with Cheney to > discuss energy policy. A committee spokesman said the Republican > staff has not had a chance to discuss the letter with Burton. >