[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 34 (Wednesday, March 14, 2001)]
[House]
[Pages H882-H883]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   BROKEN PROMISES BY PRESIDENT BUSH

  (Mr. INSLEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. INSLEE. Mr. Speaker, that wrenching sound we heard from 
Pennsylvania Avenue yesterday was President George Bush breaking a 
promise to the American people. Last September President Bush promised 
the American people he would work to reduce carbon dioxide pollution 
from generating plants. Yesterday he broke that pledge.
  Despite the fact that since last September the evidence has 
accumulated rapidly, the global climate change is

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occurring due to carbon dioxide pollution. Even though that evidence 
has increased, unfortunately, so has the administration's willingness 
to follow the dictates of the oil and gas industry.
  For a President who said that the reason he did this is that he is 
worried about an energy crisis, we find that laughable in the West, 
because for the last 2 months we have been asking the President of the 
United States to do something about energy prices, to impose a short-
term wholesale price cap, and he has refused to even consider it.
  We are going to urge him to reconsider that, because I can promise 
the Members this, this President broke his promise. It has not broken 
our spirit to bring Americans clean energy at a reasonable price.

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