SENATORS CALL ON PRESIDENT BUSH TO REFRAIN FROM CONTROVERSIAL APPOINTMENT OF VICE PRESIDEN CHENEY AIDE TO ENERGY POST
September 15, 2008
September 15, 2008
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 -- The office of Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., issued the following news release:
U.S. Senators Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT), both members of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, today strongly urged President Bush to refrain from appointing an aide to Vice President Dick Cheney to a top Department of Energy post. Cheney aide F. Chase Hutto III has a documented history of favoring oil companies and backing big corporations against me . . .
U.S. Senators Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT), both members of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, today strongly urged President Bush to refrain from appointing an aide to Vice President Dick Cheney to a top Department of Energy post. Cheney aide F. Chase Hutto III has a documented history of favoring oil companies and backing big corporations against me . . .