Republican Committee chairs often have 'horrific' records on science, matters they oversee..

[Tellurian]

Senator James Inhofe, R-OK, calls climate change a hoax, voted against stem cell research, and since the 2002 election has taken more than $500,000 in campaign contributions from the oil, gas and electric industries. He's also the chair of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.

"Inhofe is really horrific when it comes to the environment. He's continuing to perpetuate misinformation," says Tirenan Sittenfeld, legislative director of the independent organization, the League of Conservation Voters. She says he's not the only one.

Rep. Joe Barton, R-TX, is a skeptic on global warming and sponsored the House version of the Clear Skies Act, which would actually increase the amount of pollution permitted, according to the Sierra Club. He's also the chair of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Barton is the primary House author of the Bush Administration's Energy Policy Act of 2005, which was passed by Congress in July. Among other things, it encourages increases in nuclear and coal use. (However, drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was removed from the Act.) Between 1997 and 2004, Barton received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the energy industry, the Washington Post reported.

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Committee_chairs_often_have_horrific_records_1102.html



The list goes on and on..and is absolutely SICKENING...

These people are the ones responsible for killing the planet for $$$$$$$$$$$$$

"The Fox guarding the henhouse"...is a major understatement.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely!!!

NEVER AGAIN SHOULD THE REPUBLICAN PARTY BE ENTRUSTED WITH THE DIRECTION AND LIVES OF THIS COUNTRY!!

[leftofthedial]

1. their objective is a dark ages

in which most people are serfs, owned by a small ruling elite

science is antithetical to repukism.

[Tellurian]

4. Natural Resources are the source of all life on the planet..

especially the impoverished nations..

All the Republicans know how to do is "sell" what was born here on the planet
back to the people who inhabit it..

Until now- Now they've gone to the Armageddon phase of "keep doing it until we kill it" ..
leaving us with nothing but death and destruction in their wake..

Get a rope!

[Tellurian]

2. More from the "Dirty Dozen"

Rawstory cont:

"Sen. Richard Burr, R-NC, is chair of the Subcommittee on Bioterrorism and Public Health Preparedness. He supports stem cell research but is against the Kyoto Protocol. He is known for introducing "Bioshield Two," which would encourage the private sector to develop vaccines and drugs. It's been called "a drug company stockholder's dream and a consumer's worst nightmare" in a press release from the National Vaccine Information Center. In 2004, the League of Conservation Voters listed him in their Dirty Dozen's list of politicians taking the most money from oil and gas companies."

[OzarkDem]

3. Its not an exaggeration

often their staffers know next to nothing about health care or medical research, either.

They get their instruction from the lobbyists and private industry. In the case of health care, they listen to what the health insurance companies (or right wing preachers) say.

I've had Congresspeople even tell me that:

mammograms cure breast cancer

if you eat enough fruits and vegetables, you won't get cancer

many forms of cancer have already been cured

the list goes on and on.

[Tellurian]

6. Yep, Pedophiling Pirates of the Nationbean...!

[William Seger]

5. Well, what would you expect?

To Repugs, the only reason the HAVE Congressional science committees is to fight against this Enlightment pox.

[xchrom]

7. gasp! quelle surprise!

the republick party takes a battle axe to the research that help people?!?!

tell it isn't so!