[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 61 (Thursday, April 17, 2008)]
[House]
[Page H2455]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      PASS A CAP-AND-TRADE SYSTEM

  (Mr. INSLEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. INSLEE. Madam Speaker, I want to share a little note of optimism 
we heard yesterday in our Global Warming and Energy Independence 
Committee. We had a group of venture capitalists and investors come 
before us, and they told us that they were supremely confident that 
America can create a clean-energy economy that is based on new types of 
technology so we can solve our global warming problem and wean 
ourselves off our addiction of Middle Eastern oil. It was very 
heartening. But they told us they need one thing to really open up the 
floodgates of technology. They need a cap-and-trade system to cap 
carbon dioxide and really spur investment.
  The President yesterday gave short shrift to that. He was 
disappointing. We've got to provide leadership here to get this job 
done. His message was sort of a ``can't-do'' message for a ``can-do'' 
people, we Americans. Let's get this job done. Pass a cap-and-trade 
system. We will have a burst of new economic growth in this country.

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