  U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. from the Congressional Record May 21, 2001: "I am not going to go on forever about it, but I just wanted to mention that big oil give $3.2 million to the Bush campaign in the last election and $25.6 million to Republicans overall, and other sectors of the energy industry have been similarly generous.
If one thinks about it, we have the President himself who was involved in oil ventures in Texas and abroad in the 1980s. He run Arbusto Energy Firm, which after a few years become the Bush Exploration Oil Company. It merged with two other companies. Vice President Cheney, who was the former CEO of urlLink Halliburton [See page 18 of this link], the world's largest oil fuel services company, in August of last year he received $20.6 million for a sale of Halliburton stock.
But it is not just them. The National Security Adviser urlLink Condoleeza Rice served on the board of directors for urlLink Chevron , a major U.S. oil company, for 10 years. Chevron gave GOP candidates and committees in the last cycles $758,000; $224,000 to Republican Congressional candidates. The list goes on. The Secretary of Commerce Evans who spent 25 years at urlLink Tom Brown, Inc. , a $1.2 billion Denver-based oil and gas company.
We can mention the Energy Secretary and the Interior Secretary. They were also big oil money recipients when they ran for public office. " ======================================================= U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich from the Congressional Record April 3, 2003: "It is not news that this administration has deep-pocket connections with big oil and defense companies. The President was CEO of Arbusto, CEO of Spectrum 7, and on the board of directors at Harken Energy. The Vice President was CEO of Halliburton. The Commerce Secretary was the CEO of Tom Brown, Inc., an oil and gas exploration company.
The National Security Adviser was a director of Chevron Oil. The Veterans Affairs Secretary was chief operating officer of Lockheed Martin. Then there is the urlLink Defense Policy Board , whose nine members have won more than $76 billion in defense contracts in 2001 and 2002. There is Mr. Perle, who until last week was chairman of the board, and has been accused of profiting from the war in Iraq because of his corporate connections with Trireme and Global Crossing.
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