Courtesy of Secretaries Chu and Sebelius this has been a banner week for White House transparency. You can tell they told the truth by how quickly they've both tried to backpedal. ;)
High gasoline prices will make research into such alternatives more urgent, Chu said.
“But is the overall goal to get our price” of gasoline down, asked Nunnelee.
“No, the overall goal is to decrease our dependency on oil, to build and strengthen our economy,” Chu replied. “We think that if you consider all these energy policies, including energy efficiency, we think that we can go a long way to becoming less dependent on oil and [diversifying] our supply and we’ll help the American economy and the American consumers.”http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0212/73408.html#ixzz1nlwKN38K----------
During the subcommittee hearing, Rep. Tim Murphy (R-Pa.) said that contraception provided by insurance companies to people employed by religious organizations under the future form of the rule Sebelius described would not be was not free.
“Who pays for it? There’s no such thing as a free service,” Murphy asked.
Sebelius responded that that is not the case with insurance.
“The reduction in the number of pregnancies compensates for cost of contraception,” Sebelius answeredhttp://cnsnews.com/news/article/sebelius-decrease-human-beings-will-cover-cost-contraception-mandate
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