[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 82 (Wednesday, June 13, 2001)]
[House]
[Page H3079]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           THE ENERGY CRISIS

  (Ms. DeLAURO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, let us talk about the energy crisis. Let us 
talk about electricity costs in California. Let us talk about what the 
White House is going to do.
  Take a look at what CNN said the other day in an article by Major 
Garrett: ``Power of advertising fights electricity rate gaps. Worried 
GOP White House give blessing to utilities California campaign. The 
major United States utility companies, at the behest of senior 
congressional Republicans and with White House approval, are going to 
launch a multimillion dollar advertising campaign to fight the Federal 
caps on electricity prices in California.''
  That is how they are going to handle the energy crisis in California, 
is by getting their friends in the special interests to launch a media 
campaign against doing something about energy prices in this country, 
and particularly in the State of California where it has been an 
overwhelming burden on families with what their electricity costs have 
been.
  This is the way this administration handles the crisis, not by giving 
any help to Californians. They have walked away and said, ``California, 
drop dead.''

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