TUC General Secretary Frances O'Grady said Ofgem's figures demonstrated that the Big Six had been disingenuous in blaming bill rises on factors such as the cost of green levies to insulate houses and rising wholesale gas prices.
At times, he sounded like Hillary Clinton when she was first lady and blamed Bill Clinton's scandal over Monica Lewinsky on a "vast right-wing conspiracy".
Strangely, few of those speaking after the session blamed the bill's main opponents in the Republican Party of Illinois and the Catholic Church, which had lobbied heavily and successfully in opposition to the bill.
Conservative columnist Robert Novak blamed the bill's defeat on Republican Senators who were "intimidated" by "an increasingly hysterical onslaught from constituents demanding the death of the 'amnesty' for immigrants they heard vilified on talk radio".
The lawyer, John Bracken, said that Dr. Stoller, 54, should not be blamed for billing the district for trips that were not business related.
They blamed unexpected bills, no more funding from owners Salford council and low bookings at the Prestatyn site.
Immigration lawyers blame the bill for an increasing number of lawyers' quitting immigration law.
Obama did, however, vote at least five times against Kennedy on amendments, one of which passed and has been partly blamed by the bill's backers, including Kyl, for the overall bill's demise.
A letter signed by 60 state business leaders this week blamed last year's bill for boycotts, canceled contracts, declining sales and other economic setbacks.
But Senator John McCain, the Arizona Republican who managed the bill, blamed campaign contributions to Republicans, who get about four-fifths of the money the tobacco industry gives to politicians.
She partially defended the 1994 crime bill, blamed for steeply increasing the proportion of African Americans in prisons and jails on relatively low-level nonviolent drug offenses, as containing crucial gun control measures and protections for women.
