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To Protect Bottom Line, Chevron Aims To Tie US Hands Against Military Junta In Burma | Rachel Maddow - YouTube
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today in the house we had a rollicking
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hearing on
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why it is that u.s taxpayers still pay
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tens of billions of dollars in subsidies
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to
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oil and gas companies it's one thing for
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them to compete on their own terms in
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the marketplace but what is it about oil
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and gas companies in particular
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that need literally tens of billions of
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dollars in taxpayer funds propping them
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up
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that hearing today had lots of fireworks
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and it was
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underway as the new york times broke
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this big story
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of how the military junta that has just
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taken over in myanmar
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the new military dictatorship there that
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is busy killing its civilians by the
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hundreds
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the primary source of income for
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that military junta in myanmar at least
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until recently
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has been a single oil field an oil field
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in which california-based
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chevron is a major partner
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military dictatorship that has just
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taken over in myanmar is appears to be
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largely funded
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by this one oil field that chevron is a
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part of
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now the military dictatorship in myanmar
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doesn't have its own lobbyist in
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washington right now
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but new lobbying disclosure forms from
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chevron just disclosed this week
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show that chevron as a company again
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chevron based in california
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has taken it upon themselves to become
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the lobbyist in washington
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against the u.s government putting any
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sanctions on the myanmar military
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dictatorship
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any sanctions that might of course take
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a big bite out of their big gas field
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there
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which again is the same gas field that
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is the revenue source funding the
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dictatorship that has just taken over
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that country
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happy earth day right i mean democrats
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today in congress
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convening this hearing doing this
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legislative work arguing that the u.s
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should maybe stop giving tens of
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billions of dollars in taxpayer money
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to gigantic oil and gas companies every
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year since a they don't need it
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and b why are we paying for that and by
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the way have you seen how they are
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behaving around the world
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i mean big oil and gas gets taxpayer
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subsidies
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any taxpayer u.s taxpayer funds making
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it into this chevron
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lobbying budget that's trying to keep
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the spigot open for the murderous
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military junta that just took over
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burma because chevron's worried about
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anybody taking a bite out of their gas
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field there
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i mean are we seriously paying for that
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the biden administration is trying to
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sanction
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the military dictatorship there to try
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to turn things around in burma
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meanwhile they're taking u.s taxpayer
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dollars giving them
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to chevron which is lobbying to make
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sure that there
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aren't any sanctions that hurt them in
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burma even though sanctions that hurt
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them
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would be the sanctions that would
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actually defund the murderous
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dictatorship
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i mean why would we pay for that why
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would we pay on both sides of that
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the republican witness at that hearing
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today as i mentioned this is
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this idea of stop subsidizing oil and
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gas companies that's
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in biden's legislative the biden
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administration's legislative proposals
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it's in democratic legislative proposals
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that's what the democrats are trying to
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do that's the way they convened this
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hearing today
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but the republicans of course got to
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also bring their own witnesses
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they summoned a as their witness for
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today's hearing a representative from
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the american petroleum industry
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who argued for the republican side that
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we as a country absolutely should keep
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subsidizing big oil and gas companies
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one of the republicans on the committee
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a republican congresswoman from new
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mexico
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then expressed her own
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in its own way eloquent agreement with
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that
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because if we didn't keep subsidizing
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oil and gas companies
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as a country i mean come on man
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seriously what would what would what
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would happen to pantyhose
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in fact if not for fossil fuels we
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wouldn't even be having the capability
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to have these
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remote calls and uh talks right now
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because of the plastics and
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medical devices eyeglasses pantyhose
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pantyhose
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if we don't keep giving billions of
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dollars to chevron and exxon and all the
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rest you guys we might lose patios
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pantyhose are you ready for that
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that was the republican contribution
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today on the issue of why
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you shouldn't just pay oil and gas
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companies when you put gas in your car
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you should also have your government
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give them your tax dollars too because
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pantyhose and other stuff what a day
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right
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