[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 92 (Monday, July 17, 2000)]
[House]
[Page H6057]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    AMERICA'S FOREIGN OIL DEPENDENCY

  (Mr. GIBBONS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GIBBONS. Mr. Speaker, Americans are paying more for gas now than 
at any other time in our history. Families like David and Jenny Davis 
of Reno, Nevada are being forced to eliminate their vacation plans and 
change their daily schedules, like eliminating after-school programs 
for their children, just to save money on gas; and all of this when our 
country's dependency on foreign oil is at an all-time high.
  Yet, for 8 years, the Clinton-Gore administration has refused to 
address and reduce our dependence on foreign oil or to prevent foreign 
oil price-fixing schemes. Instead, the administration continues to 
support oil-producing countries, even though they blatantly banned 
together to raise oil prices.
  Now American families are paying for the administration's actions or 
inactions. Our hard-working families should not have to sacrifice their 
livelihoods just because the administration refuses or fails to stand 
up to foreign oil pricing nations.
  I yield back the administration's national policy which continues to 
cost Americans precious money every time they go to the gas pump.

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