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from the Oklahoma Corporation CommissionJim Palmer, Director of Information
Phone: (405) 522-2100, FAX: (405) 522-1623, www.occ.state.ok.us
June 29, 2000
NEWS ADVISORY: Attention News Directors and Assignment Editors
Corporation Commissioner Denise Bode will be in Washington D.C. on Thursday, June 29, at the request of the U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs. The Committee meets at 1p.m. EDT in SD-342 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
She has been asked to testify and answer questions on "the oversight of rising oil prices and the efficiency and effectiveness of Executive Branch responses." Bode is in the first panel on the witness list which includes two U.S. Department of Energy experts and the Governor of Ohio.
Commissioner Bode most recently had her views about the impact of imported oil and the OPEC cartels control of the American market quoted on the nationally syndicated Rush Limbaugh talk show. Limbaugh quoted Bode from a May 9 story on "Worldnetdaily.com"as saying
"The OPEC cartel clearly understands that the Clinton energy policy is based on instant gratification seeking low gasoline prices and ignoring future consequences with a foreign cartel in charge of our national energy future."On May 3, Bode addressed the prestigious Heritage Foundation in Washington on America’s increased reliance on foreign oil.
Bode testified on March 28 before the joint U.S. Senate Foreign Relations and Energy and Natural Resources Committee at the request of Chairmen Jesse Helms and Frank Murkowski on "America At Risk: US Dependency on foreign oil".
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