[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 96 (Thursday, June 14, 2007)]
[House]
[Page H6408]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        CLEAN ENERGY REVOLUTION

  (Mr. INSLEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. INSLEE. Mr. Speaker, next week the House will take the second 
step in the clean energy revolution. The new Congress a couple months 
ago passed a bill, the first step, to reel back $14 billion of tax 
giveaways to the oil companies and create a fund for clean energy; but 
the second step starts next week.
  When we take that step, we ought to be invested with the same 
ambition and innovative spirit of these companies that are doing great 
work around America, like A123 Battery Company that is making a battery 
so you get 150 miles a gallon in a plug-in hybrid; the Imperial Fuel 
Company, the biggest biodiesel supplier in the western hemisphere; the 
RAMGEN Company, making a compression technology to burn clean coal 
cleanly.
  We ought to be invested with the same spirit of innovation that we 
had when John F. Kennedy stood behind me in 1961 and said we are going 
to do the Moon. So next week when we start, we should not hear the 
voices of timidity saying that we cannot improve our fuel mileage. We 
need a giant leap for mankind with innovation. Americans are a people 
with can-do spirit, and we will do it next week.

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