Bush's Energy Policy Stalled (washingtonpost.com): "when Democrats proposed funding to modernize the grid during consideration of spending bills in 2001, the ideas were shot down by the White House and its allies on the Hill.
'He's the president, and the Congress is Republican,' said William W. Hogan, research director of Harvard University's Electricity Policy Group. 'The buck stops there. They didn't think the grid was that high a priority, and they wanted to bundle those issues with other things they wanted.'
Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the House energy committee, said, 'The debate over the Bush energy bill so far has been dominated by the president's demand that the government get out of the way of big oil.' "
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