[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 95 (Tuesday, June 10, 2008)]
[House]
[Page H5117]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY NEEDS NEW ENERGY POLICY NOW

  (Mr. DAVID DAVIS of Tennessee asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. DAVID DAVIS of Tennessee. Madam Speaker, with high gas prices 
soaring, moms and dads across East Tennessee and across America are 
struggling to put a budget together at the kitchen table. They are 
worried how they are going to pay for their health care, how they are 
going to buy enough gas to get their kids to school, how they are going 
to pay for their children's education.
  Families and small businesses across America are hurting. Earl 
Humphreys, for example, in Bristol, Tennessee, owns Lawn Boyz Lawn Care 
Service. He has told me he may have to go out of business.
  It is time for solutions, time for no more excuses. High gas prices 
are not only an economic security issue, they are a national security 
issue. We are too dependent on foreign countries, countries that hate 
us and hate our freedoms and, quite frankly, hate our religion.
  We need an energy policy now. I call on the Democrat majority to 
offer legislation that will provide for lower gas prices, better 
economic security, better national security, and I ask them to do it 
now. We need to use American energy. We need solutions.

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