[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 48 (Tuesday, April 16, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H3396]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                               EARTH DAY

  (Ms. McKINNEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. McKINNEY. Mr. Speaker, Earth Day will soon be upon us, and under 
instructions from the Republican National Committee, members from the 
other side of the aisle will be planting trees in an effort to clean up 
their well-deserved antienvironmental image. The American people know, 
however, that the only thing green about the Republican Party is the 
color of the campaign dollars they receive from big-name polluters.
  It is no coincidence, Mr. Speaker, that the Republican majority is 
still trying to pass legislation to allow oil and gas drilling in the 
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. GOP coffers have been pumped 
full of money from the oil and gas industries.
  You see, the process is simple: Pump greenbacks into Republican 
coffers, then pump oil and gas out of fragile ecosystems.
  So this coming Earth Day when you see your Republican Member of 
Congress planting a tree, just think of how scenic the Arctic National 
Wildlife Refuge will be with oil wells dotting the landscape.

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