[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 130 (Friday, August 1, 2008)]
[House]
[Page H7793]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    PRICE AT THE PUMP IS NOT A HOAX

  (Mrs. BLACKBURN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, I rise to express my sincere 
disappointment with the liberal Democrat leadership of this House.
  I think it's important that they realize the price at the pump is not 
a hoax, it's not a mirage, it is not a bad dream, it is real life. And 
to my constituents in the Seventh District of Tennessee, they are angry 
with the price at the pump.
  What we are hearing from them is this, Madam Speaker: we can't afford 
the change the Democrat Congress has wrought. We can't afford the price 
that they have delivered at the pump. And we definitely cannot afford 
for the Democrat Congress to vote themselves an adjournment resolution 
and leave for 5 weeks--5 weeks, while the price at the pump continues 
to rise, while the price of electric power rises, while home heating 
oil prices are going to triple.
  This is reality. It is real life. And it is what is facing our 
constituents every single day. Take some of the power you're using to 
save the planet and use it to address this issue.

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