[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 100 (Tuesday, June 17, 2008)]
[House]
[Pages H5416-H5417]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   COMPREHENSIVE ENERGY POLICY NEEDED

  (Mr. BISHOP of Utah asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BISHOP. Mr. Speaker, during the Second Continental Congress, John 
Adams wrote a letter to his wife, Abigail. He said, ``I have always 
felt dissatisfied, but apparently now I seem to reek of discontent.'' 
He reeked of discontent because he knew what the right thing to do was, 
but he couldn't

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get the leaders of the Continental Congress to do it, which was to 
declare independence.
  Today, with gasoline at over $4 a gallon, $1.75 higher than when we 
started this Congress, and still no comprehensive energy plan, I as 
well as the American people seem of reek of discontent, because we know 
what the right thing to do is, but we can't get the leaders of Congress 
to do it, in this case to declare energy independence.
  I specifically take umbrage at the fact that last week I had to fly 
for 4 hours to come back here to vote on telling people how to spend 
their stimulus paycheck and saying that Congress approved of D-day and 
ending the Revolutionary War, but still no effort to try and solve our 
energy problem.
  We need a comprehensive bill that will increase our conservation, 
increase our production and increase our ability to innovate how we 
deliver energy to the American people, and we need it now. Otherwise, 
we will continue to reek of this discontent.

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