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#1 A very meaningful nine seconds, thank you.

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The Senate Commitee On Energy And Natural Resources held a meeting today, and got a bunch of energy experts sworn in. Here's the transcript of the funny, and important, part.
WHITEHOUSE: Gentlemen, we’re in the middle of a near total mortgage system meltdown in this country. We have a health care system that burns 16 percent of our GDP, in which the Medicare liability alone has been estimated at $34 trillion. We’re burning $10 billion a month in Iraq.

This administration has run up $7.7 trillion in national debt, by our calculation. And there is worsening evidence every day of global warming, with worsening environmental and national security ramifications. In light of those conditions, do any of you seriously contend that drilling for more oil is the number one issue facing the American people today?

[NINE-SECOND SILENCE]

WHITEHOUSE: No, it doesn’t seem so.
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link to the rest of the transcipt please Nitram..
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Dark Silver wrote:link to the rest of the transcipt please Nitram..
No web-based full written transcripts have been provided yet, but it is on the appropriate webpage listing the experts, and apparently having 'Archive Webcast' associated. Relevent Link: Hearing, Sept 12th, 9:30 AM

As the webcast refuses to replay itself in anything but realplayer, and I'd like to have a computer tomorrow, I haven't tried it(Yes, I've lost computers to that POS software).
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