[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 113 (Thursday, July 10, 2008)]
[House]
[Pages H6347-H6348]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                               GAS PRICES

  (Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas asked and was given permission to address

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the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas. The price of gasoline has spiked up $2 
since the Democrats took control of the Congress in just January 2007. 
Americans want Democrats and Republicans to work together to find 
commonsense solutions to the skyrocketing cost of gasoline.
  The United States must become energy self-sufficient. Oil, gas, coal, 
nuclear, solar, and wind, all of it. To bring down the price of 
gasoline, we must focus on increasing America's energy supply. Congress 
needs to act now to increase exploration and boost America's refinery 
capability.
  Americans are ready for action. They want an up-or-down vote on 
energy independence. A Democrat aide is quoted in The Hill newspaper as 
saying, ``Right now, our strategy on gas prices is drive small cars and 
wait for the wind.''
  If those are their only ideas, then, as the astronaut said when they 
were in orbit, Houston, we have a problem.

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