Melancon Skips Meeting With Oil Company Executives
Times-Picayune (excerpt)

Rep. Charlie Melancon,D-Napoleonville, vaulted onto the A-list of cable television news shows when he was overcome with emotion about the Gulf of Mexico oil disasterat a hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Energy and Environment on May 27. But Melancon was a no-show at ahearing of the subcommittee last Tuesday on " America's Energy Future,"at which BP America President Lamar McKay and the heads of ExxonMobil,Chevron, ConocoPhillips and Shell Oil testified. Melancon's office said he was working with Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, in pulling together a news conference, which was held mid-afternoon the day of the hearing, in which Poe, Melancon and other Gulf Coast members of Congress decried the administration's six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling. And Melancon was among the members of Congress questioning BP CEO Tony Hayward Thursday at a hearing of the Energy Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.