Pot Calling Kettle Black

HARTFORD, Conn. - Connecticut has given social service agencies permission to supply low-income residents with discounted heating oil from Venezuela, whose energy aid program for the needy has rankled the Bush administration....

In Washington, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Joe Barton, R-Texas, and Rep. Ed Whitfield, the Republican chairman of the subcommittee for oversight and investigations, have voiced concern that the oil deals are "part of an unfriendly government's increasingly belligerent and hostile foreign policy" toward the United States.

By STEPHEN SINGER, Associated Press Writer