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During a recent hearing of the House Judiciary Committee dealing with rising oil prices, John Hofmeister, the president of Shell Oil, testified: "I can guarantee to the American people, because of the inaction of the United States Congress, ever increasing prices, unless the demand comes down--and the five dollars [a gallon gas] will look like a very low price in the years to come if we are prohibited from finding new reserves, new opportunities to increase supplies."
In response to Hofmeister, Representative Maxine Waters, a Democrat from Los Angeles, began: "And guess what this liberal [referring to herself] will be all about. This liberal will be all about socializ- ... uh, uh ..." Realizing she had inadvertently revealed more of her agenda than she ...