Phil Gramm

Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Kensington): Getty ImagesEighth district Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Kensington) delivered the Democratic response to President George W. Bush's weekly radio address on Saturday.

Bush used his airtime to admonish Democratically controlled Congress for not doing more to bring down high gas prices by opposing more oil drilling offshore and in the Rocky Mountain West and Alaska.

But Van Hollen attempted to tie rising gas prices to the earliest days of the Bush administration, citing Vice President Dick Cheney's "secret Energy Task Force," where "[t]hey invited the top oil company executives into the White House and told them to bring along their wish lists."