21.   According to news reports at the time, Allison met with Cheney for an hour in February and discussed the national energy situation.

22.   All of this argues for an immediate, earnest debate on national energy policy.

23.   Bush and Cheney have refused to identify the industry executives who met with the energy task force last spring before it sketched out a new national energy policy.

24.   Bush put in a bid for his national energy plan, which has been passed by the House and is before several Senate committees.

25.   Bush said the White House task force will focus on the immediate problems in the West and a national energy policy that stresses increasing supplies.

26.   But Schroeder said the meetings with Omega were not about national energy policy.

27.   Citing complaints from power plants and refineries, the Bush administration in May ordered a review as part of its national energy plan.

28.   Daschle also called for a national energy plan to reduce dependence on foreign oil while protecting wilderness areas Bush wants to tap for oil drilling.

29.   Does this in any way ease concerns that the Bush administration granted Enron extraordinary sway over federal energy regulation and national energy policy?

30.   Ehrlichman argued for a national energy policy, welfare reform, anti-poverty programs and liberalized abortion laws.