[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 51 (Wednesday, May 3, 2006)]
[House]
[Page H1986]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                    LET'S KEEP AMERICA GOING TO WORK

  (Mr. CARTER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. CARTER. Mr. Speaker, this morning, and every morning in my 
memory, members of my district, Americans all across this country and 
my colleagues in the Democratic Party went out and got in their cars, 
started them up and drove to work or drove to school. They wouldn't 
have done that if there hadn't been gasoline or diesel in those 
automobiles. And yet, the Democrats have been opposing refining 
capacity, opposing pipelines, opposing drilling in ANWR, opposing going 
to the reserves that we know are available if we will just drill the 
wells and produce the petrochemicals that are necessary to keep this 
country running.
  The reason we have got the problem today is obstructionism to solve 
the problem which is, let's put gas and diesel in our tanks so we can 
keep America going to work.

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