[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 47 (Wednesday, April 26, 2006)]
[House]
[Page H1749]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    BETTER ENERGY POLICY IS POSSIBLE

  (Ms. McKINNEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. McKINNEY. Madam Speaker, the American people seem wedged between 
record oil company profits, half-billion-dollar retirement packages for 
oil executives, and a Federal energy policy that just does not work. 
Now Americans have to choose between not only medicine through a 
prescription drug plan that is a boon to pharmaceuticals and a doggle 
to the people who need the drugs, but the people are also being 
victimized by a secret energy plan drawn up by oil barons. For years, 
people like me have been saying that this Nation needs to decrease oil 
dependence, that it was depletable, causes global warming, was not 
worth destroying ANWR or waging wars over.
  Better policy is possible, but we won't get it from this 
administration of oil barons.

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