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It was one year ago today that Texas Rep. Joe Barton (R) embarrassed himself and the Congress when he apologized to BP executives testifying before a House committee for how he thought they were being treated in the wake of the worst and deadliest oil spill in U.S. history, which devastated local economies along the Gulf Coast.
 
“I am ashamed of what happened at the White House yesterday. I think it is a tragedy of the first proportion that a private corporation would be subjected to what I would characterize as a shakedown â€" in this case a $20 billion dollar shakedown … So I’m only speaking for myself, I’m not speaking for anybody else. But I apologize.”

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