[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 106 (Wednesday, June 25, 2008)]
[House]
[Page H6015]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                    DRILL HERE, DRILL NOW, PAY LESS

  (Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California asked and was given permission 
to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California. Mr. Speaker, I have been 
informed that the rules of the House do not allow me to wear a lapel 
pin or a lapel sign, so I had to take this off. I was going to use this 
chart, but I thought, maybe, since the rules allow it, I would take 
this pin off and put it here so people can see what it says. It says, 
simply, ``Drill here. Drill now. Pay less.''
  It is also symbolic of the smallness of the area that would be 
affected if we went offshore or if we went to ANWR. It would have to be 
about a pin dot here of this size to display what it would actually 
represent in ANWR versus all of Alaska.
  Drill here in the United States. American resources. Drill now, not 
20 years from now, not 30 years from now. Now. Pay less. As the futures 
market would look at the change in policy and would recognize that 
we're no longer going to hamstring ourselves, they would begin to 
understand that prices would not go up as fast as they have been going, 
and we would begin to pay less.
  Drill here. Drill now. Pay less for the American people.

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