[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 142 (Tuesday, September 9, 2008)]
[House]
[Page H7865]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   THE AMERICAN PEOPLE CANNOT AFFORD TO WAIT FOR AN ALL-OF-THE-ABOVE 
                            ENERGY STRATEGY

  (Mr. McCOTTER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. McCOTTER. Mr. Speaker, in August the high price of energy helped 
cost 84,000 Americans their jobs; 39,000 auto manufacturing jobs in the 
State of Michigan alone were reported lost.
  The response of this Democratic Congress was to take a 5-week paid 
vacation at taxpayer expense without doing anything on the price of 
energy.
  What we have asked for repeatedly in this Chamber, and even through 
the recess by taking to the floor, is for an all-of-the-above energy 
strategy that includes maximum American energy production, commonsense 
conservation, and free market green innovations. It is time for a vote 
on this commonsense bipartisan proposal. The American people cannot 
afford to wait.
  Instead, we see a Speaker who had time to write a book now coming to 
us finding time to write a new energy proposal unilaterally.
  All we ask for is a vote on existing legislation. Again, Mr. Speaker, 
the American people cannot afford to wait.

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