"Interior Department Inspector General Earl Devaney's release of three reports, which stem from a $5 million investigation dating to 2005, implicated at least 19 current and former employees of the Minerals Management Service in unethical relationships with industry, frolics that included marijuana and cocaine use.

"The reports raised new concerns about the management of programs that collect $8 billion in annual revenue from offshore and onshore mineral leases. Democrats seized on the report to bolster their efforts to counter growing pressure to open up more areas to oil drilling.

" 'The allegations of illicit and unethical behavior detailed in the inspector general's report are directly related to the energy debate taking place in the Congress this week," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California said. "Little did we know how cozy the relationship between Big Oil and the administration's regulators have been."

"Brandishing a copy of the inspector general's report, Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., said Wednesday "It's bad enough that the government employees who oversee offshore oil drilling are literally and figuratively in bed with Big Oil, the rest of the U.S. government doesn't need to jump in bed with them."

"Devaney said that his investigators had "discovered a culture of substance abuse and promiscuity'' in the recently created "Royalty in Kind'' program, in which the government forgoes royalties and takes a share of the pumped oil and gas for resale. Several of the program's staffers, based in Washington and Denver, "admitted to illegal drug use as well as illicit sexual encounters.''

For a list of Bush regime scandals and crimes check here.

While you're making statements, Nancy, how about putting impeachment back on the table.  You arrogantly and inappropriately defied the will of the American people by dismissing any possibility of impeachment.  What are you afraid of?