[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 66 (Thursday, April 24, 2008)]
[House]
[Page H2663]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      DEMOCRATS' COMMONSENSE PLAN

  (Mr. BARRETT of South Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BARRETT of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, ``Democrats have a 
commonsense plan to help bring down skyrocketing gas prices.''
  That was Ms. Pelosi in a press release 1 year ago today. The price at 
the pump then, $2.91 a gallon, today almost $4 a gallon.
  Also 2 years ago, Ms. Pelosi vowed that if her party took over 
Congress they would cut energy prices, especially gasoline. It's 
obvious there's a fast growing need for energy in our country, and this 
need must be met with a solution.
  To provide a reduction in gas prices for Americans, we need to find 
resources here at home and support domestic energy production. Our 
country needs to research and fund alternative energy production to 
become less dependent on foreign sources for the security of our 
country, and to ease the burdening gas prices for our American 
families.
  American families were promised a commonsense plan by the Democrat 
majority. If there's a commonsense plan, don't you think it's time that 
we see it?

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