[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 13 (Tuesday, January 23, 2007)]
[House]
[Pages H845-H846]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 ENERGY

  (Mr. PERLMUTTER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. PERLMUTTER. Madam Speaker and Members of the House, tonight we 
will hear the President give his State of the Union address, and I 
expect and I am confident that he will address energy issues.
  I had a meeting this morning with an Assistant Secretary from the 
Department of Energy, and I believe that we are going to have a chance 
to have bipartisan effort, Democrats and Republicans, coming together 
with the President to deal with energy efficiency, renewable energy, 
and redeveloping and re-energizing our distribution grid throughout the 
country. This is going to be good for all of America, no matter what 
side of the aisle you might be on, because it is good for national 
security. It is good for the climate, and it is good for jobs across 
this country.
  In the Seventh Congressional District of Colorado, which I represent, 
the suburbs of Denver, we have the preeminent laboratory in America and 
in the world in the National Renewable

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Energy Lab. And with this focus on energy conservation, renewable 
energy and distributing energy in a way that is reliable, we will make 
this country more secure. And I am confident that the President is 
going to focus on it, as will we in the Congress.

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