Posted on 08/03/2014 9:10:02 AM PDT by jazusamo
Theres fallout from the July 27 Houston Chronicle exposé of a trip to Azerbaijan by 10 member of the House that violated House rules. The trip was ostensibly sponsored by nonprofit groups but was actually funded by oil companies BP, Conoco Phillips and SOCAR, the national oil company of Azerbaijan. According to the New York Post today:
Rep. Gregory Meeks pushed to let an Iran-backed natural-gas project dodge US sanctions after attending an illicit junket paid for by energy companies.
Also from the Post:
Congressman Meeks went on a 2013 Congressional trip to Baku, Azerbaijan, subsidized in part by corporate interests which lobby Congress a violation of House rules. Shortly after he returned, Meeks sponsored a resolution wanted by those same corporations, said Ken Boehm, chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center, a watchdog group.
Rep. Yvette Clarke, another New York member of Congress, was on the trip. Shes on the Ethics Committee.
Related:
and a DemocRAT.
LINK:
http://nlpc.org/stories/2014/08/03/meeks-pushed-iran-sanction-exemption-after-azerbaijan-junket
Nothing to see here, nothing at all, move on, move on.
/s/
IMHO
According to the New York Post today: Rep. Gregory Meeks pushed to let an Iran-backed natural-gas project dodge US sanctions... Congressman Meeks went on a 2013 Congressional trip to Baku, Azerbaijan, subsidized in part by corporate interests which lobby Congress a violation of House rules. Shortly after he returned, Meeks sponsored a resolution wanted by those same corporations, said Ken Boehm, chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center, a watchdog group. [Democrat] Rep. Yvette Clarke, another New York member of Congress, was on the trip. Shes on the Ethics Committee.She's also a dunce who claimed there was still slavery in NY state in 1898; and this isn't Meeks' first go-round with, shall we say, irregularities.
This of course helps to explain why such prominent congresscriminals and senators - many of whom, inexplicably, are Jewish - are still on board opposing true oil independence by the US, even though it means billions to islamic totalitarian states that continue to kill and fund terrorism. Money talks and never so loudly as in the Capitol.
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Azerbaijan is a MUSLIM country.
Azerbaijan got slaughtered in a fairly recent war with Orthodox Christian Armenia, despite the fact that Turkey, al quada, the Chechens, and ‘fighters’ from around the muslim world poured in to help them.
The US Stace Department just loves Azerbaijan.
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