Dayton Blasts administration for continueing to put corporations Before

[DemonFighterLives]

Taxpayers.
I couldn't find a thread on the Halliburton stuff, but I found it on Daytons website after hearing it on NPR.
http://dayton.senate.gov/~dayton/releases/2003/12/2003C10840.html
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Mark Dayton today blasted the Administration for electing to have corporations profit over what is best for American taxpayers. According to a New York Times article today, the U.S. government is paying the Halliburton Company an average of $2.64 a gallon to import gasoline and other fuel to Iraq from Kuwait. This amount is more than twice what others are paying to truck in Kuwaiti fuel, government documents show. Dayton is calling on Senator Norm Coleman, Chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, to hold a hearing on the Hailliburton contract in 2004.

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1. Norm Coleman is junior's butt boy, so I wouldn't expect much there!

[DemonFighterLives]

2. I hear ya

More on the Halliburton overcharges of 61 million.
Sorry for the Fox link.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,105599,00.html

WASHINGTON — President Bush, trying to calm a political storm, said Friday that Vice President Dick Cheney's former company should repay the government if it overcharged for gasoline delivered in Iraq under a controversial prewar contract.

"If there's an overcharge, like we think there is, we expect that money be repaid," the president told reporters when asked about the Halliburton contract controversy.

Pentagon auditors say Halliburton Co.'s (search) subsidiary Kellogg, Brown & Root (search) charged up to $61 million too much for delivering gasoline to Iraqi citizens under a no-bid contract to rebuild Iraq's dilapidated oil industry. Halliburton denies overcharging.

Meanwhile, an Army spokesman disclosed that companies from France, Germany, Russia and Canada won't be eligible to replace Halliburton as the recipient of the oil reconstruction contract.

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3. jumpin jehosephat

all i can say to that is...

ARRRRRRRRRRGHH!!!!!

(i'm making that face that worf makes when he gets pissed off)

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