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Pelosi Slams BP for ‘Lack of Integrity’

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Posted on Jun 10, 2010
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Nancy Pelosi is joined by House Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller, D-Calif., left, and House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman James Oberstar, D-Minn., on Capitol Hill on Tuesday after a meeting on the BP oil spill.

On Thursday, as President Barack Obama was preparing to meet with the families of the 11 people killed in the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was ripping into BP for its sketchy business practices as she talked to reporters at a White House press conference.  —KA

BBC:

“It is clear that there was a lack of integrity on the part of BP when it came to what it told us about the adequacy of their technology, the sufficiency of blow-out prevention and the capacity to clean up,” Speaker Pelosi said.

Addressing reporters at the White House, she agreed with calls for BP to suspend its dividend to ensure that compensation is paid to Gulf oil spill victims.

Mr Obama said he and congressional leaders had agreed that they should look at how to update US law to ensure victims of the Gulf oil spill were protected.

Pollution legislation was written before the industry had developed ultra-deep water exploration and ought be brought up to date to ensure the people of the Gulf “are made whole”, he added.

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By skulz fontaine, June 11, 2010 at 9:24 am Link to this comment

Pelosi says BP “lacks integrity?” Oh my, pot kettle black. The servile Pelosi had best
shut her yip and stick to the hypocrisy she knows. Of course, BP is beneath
contempt and so would be Pelosi.

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By samosamo, June 10, 2010 at 11:42 am Link to this comment

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Oh, HOW reassuring does this make me feel. The mummy
‘slaming’ bp for its lack of integrity. That’s like w reassuring us
that iraq, afghanistan, pakistan, need to be invaded for their
roles in the attack of 9/11/01.

Or as in the case of the mummy and the rest of congress,
reassuring us that corporate welfare is the best way out of our
problems. But hey, long time ‘employment’ in the biggest ‘gold
mine’ will bring out these wild accusations that make them
appear so concerned about their constituency.

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