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Tom Delay Polluter Lapdog Scorecard
Did your representative vote for Rep. Capps' motion to strike Tom DeLay's MTBE polluter immunity provision from the Energy Bill?
At least 208 members of Congress represent people or companies with the toxic, foul-smelling gasoline additive MTBE in their drinking water. Reps. Tom Delay and Joe Barton insisted on a provision in the Energy Bill (H.R. 6) that would make taxpayers, not big oil companies, pay to clean it up. The DeLay-Barton provision would immunize oil companies against dozens of defective product lawsuits brought by community water systems after September 5, 2003.
