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Outraged congressional critics considered it the most shocking Executive
pardon since Richard Nixon was let off the Watergate hook. Under the
budget that President Reagan sent to Capitol Hill last week, the
Department of Energy division charged with prosecuting oil companies
for past violations of price-control regulations would have its annual
allocation slashed from $35 million to $6 million. Fumed Democratic
Congressman John Dingell of Michigan: "This adds up to amnesty for the
oil companies and the public be damned."Since its creation in 1977, the special DOE office has accused 33 of the
35 largest oil producers and refiners of price overcharges and other
offenses amounting to $11 billion. Before leaving office, the Carter
Administration dropped $3.5 billion of the claims against 15 companies
after they agreed to make cash payments totaling $550 million to
consumers and the Government. But many of the biggest firms, including
Exxon, Texaco and Mobil, refused to settle. In view of the new
President's budget proposals, they may have been wise. Says Paul Bloom,
who headed Carter's oil-price investigation: "These cutbacks would
constitute a death blow to any credible effort to pursue prosecutions
against major refiners."Some of Reagan's own Energy Department staffers share that opinion.
Avrom Landesman, the man now in charge of prosecuting the oil
companies, told a House Government Operations subcommittee last week
that he had written a report describing how the reduced budget would
cripple his efforts. But his new superiors at DOE, Landesman testified,
urged him to rewrite the report and downplay the impact of the budget
cuts. An internal DOE memo obtained by Subcommittee Chairman Toby
Moffett of Connecticut maintained that the oil probe could earn the
Treasury at least $600 million in additional payments from the
companiesmuch more than would be saved by budget reductions.These revelations caused congressional Democrats to question Reagan's
motives in the spending cuts. Said Representative Barney Frank of
Massachusetts: "If this was a budget decision, then I'm Lady Diana
Spencer." Added Congressman Thomas Lantos of California: "Calling this
a budget decision is a smokescreen. It's a policy change based on the
Administration's relationship with the oil companies." Responding just
as vehemently, Energy Secretary James Edwards insisted that the
prosecutions would proceed even under the new budget. Said he: "By God,
there'll be no amnesty." Meanwhile, the oil companies sit silently and
survey the confusion.
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