[HUAC] Investigation into Marathon Oil Company

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• Noting the infrastructure holdings of the Marathon Oil Company.
• Affirming the need for the House Committee on Un-American Activities to monitor economic activity of a nature infringing upon national security and stability.
• Calling on the director of MSA activities of the Marathon Oil Company and a representative from Pennzoil to immediately report to the House Committee on Un-American Activities in order to answer relevant questions on the aforementioned matters.
• Beginning the process of writing a report on the matter for the consideration of Congress and the Presidency.

Motioned by the following HUAC members for the voting of the full committee and Chair Robert S Ellis:
Regina Carroll

Votes in favor:
Regina Carroll
Robert S Ellis
Arthur Robertson
Andrea Hernández

Votes against:
N/A

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  Abraham Shinoda

I am, most certainly, in favor.

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Cecelia Ortega

This motion has my vote in favor as well.

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Representative Robert P Goff, Republican, Iowa

I believe the issue of the Marathon Oil Company to have some merit to be investigated by this committee, purely on a fairness standpoint when one considers the holdings of the United States government in it, even if the apparent evidence is not so negative as it is for SOCAL. However I do not believe Penzoil relevant even to that?

Representative N. Warner, Republican, Oklahoma

Might I echo my Republican colleague's thoughts on this matter. I would ask the chair to better explain the reasoning behind the investigation.

[OYID]

Well, see, it's simple: Pennzoil has (or at least until recently had) plans to expand its activities into the MSA. It would be strange, and really just kind of gullible, to believe that if PSA companies have imperialistic designs for the national energy market the USA magnates should be any different. Of course, this could be the case, but then that raises the question of why they backed down from investing at all. I mean, if they mean us no harm then surely they have nothing to hide.

It seems I should also remind the Representative that the Marathon investigation is not some trivial matter of "fairness", looking into one company since we looked into another, but rather borne out of a real concern about what many consider an undue influence of foreign businesses in MS American politics, who regularly use this influence to, say, deflect attention from them during a Congressional investigation.

If I may, I'd like to point out that this foreign company owns and operates a strategic piece of infrastructure which passes through or national territory. A situation which should definitely be looked into if we're getting at the bottom of the role of the imperialist powers in the energy market. Congressman, I believe it was you who brought up the situation of forced and deliberate underdevelopment brought upon by the SOCAL model (extracting here, refining there, and only selling here), isn't it similar to when our national territory is used merely to transport crude oil from one place to another, which will then be refined and sold to us as gasoline and other products? Shouldn't we look into the intentions of this, I don't want to say malicious, but certainly rather roundabout model?