[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 83 (Thursday, June 14, 2001)]
[House]
[Page H3155]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       CALIFORNIA'S ENERGY CRISIS

  (Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, after months and months 
of watching the Bush administration do nothing to help the California 
consumers and the California business community with the price gouging 
that is going on in energy, after months of having the White House act 
as the puppet of the oil industry, after months of watching an 
administration that is full of ex-oil industry executives give private 
meetings to the oil industry on their energy plan, and seeing the very 
people who are making the decisions about our energy future hold stock 
in the energy companies, after months of this kind of activity and 
insensitivity to the Western energy users in this country, the 
Republicans and the White House now understand that the American people 
are no longer going to continue to accept this administration doing 
nothing about the price gouging that is going on in the western United 
States with respect to energy while at the same time those very energy 
executives of the companies that are punishing the California consumer, 
punishing California businesses, punishing the workers and punishing 
our economy are cashing stock options worth $300 million as they gouge 
the people in the western United States.

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