Democrats ask an Energy summit

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http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/bw-cong/2006/apr/06/040607393.html

Some Democrats Ask Bush for Energy Summit
By H. JOSEF HEBERT
ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON (AP) - Fifty-one congressional Democrats called on President Bush on Thursday to hold a bipartisan energy summit to find ways to reduce the country's dependence on oil.

They said participants should include representatives "from all facets of life" - from oil companies and automakers to environmentalists, academics and consumer advocates.

"Developing a serious long-term strategy to curb our nation's dangerous dependence on oil is long overdue," the Democrats said in a letter to Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney

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The letter calling for an energy summit was signed by 27 of the Senate's 44 Democrats and 24 House members.

Such a summit "would be designed to produce solutions to move America forward more quickly on a path toward greater energy independence and security," said the Democrats.
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Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., who along with Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., spearheaded the idea for a summit, said industry leaders including the chairman of Ford Motor Co., have been among those calling for such a gathering.

"We have to seize the momentum to find real solutions," said Kerry.

It seems to me the Senator has been VERY busy in the background.

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1. Here is the letter.

http://cantwell.senate.gov/news/04_06_06_energy_summit.pdf