[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 73 (Thursday, May 24, 2001)]
[House]
[Page H2682]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            WE NOW KNOW WHO IS IN CONTROL HERE IN WASHINGTON

  (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, we now know who is in control here in 
Washington, D.C. In the House, the Republicans are in control. In the 
Senate, the Democrats are in control. In the White House, the oil and 
gas industry is in control.
  The fact that this line came from a famous talk show host does not 
mean it is any less true because while wholesale electrical rates from 
the energy industry have gone up 500 to 1,000 percent on the west 
coast, while my constituents' energy costs have doubled, this White 
House has done nothing, absolutely nothing, to help the energy crisis 
in the short-term in the Western United States.
  This White House should listen to the people they ought to be working 
for, the people whose hard-earned money is going to these energy costs. 
I will say, every single dollar any American may get from this tax cut 
in the next 2 years, I will say exactly where it is going, it is going 
to the energy costs and enormous spikes in these costs that this White 
House is doing nothing about.
  We call on this President to adopt a cost-based system. We call on 
this President to not sit on his hands. We call on him to do something 
with FERC.

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