[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 147 (Tuesday, September 16, 2008)]
[House]
[Page H8140]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     PROPOSED ENERGY BILL IS A SHAM

  (Mr. CARTER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. CARTER. Mr. Speaker, it is a good thing we don't have Pinocchios 
working in this House or we would have some noses growing. To stand up 
and say this is a bipartisan bill when the first Republican saw it, I 
was present when it happened at 9:45 last night while we were speaking 
on the floor of the House, ought to make somebody's nose grow.
  To call this a bipartisan bill is a sham, and we ought to call it 
what it is. This is a bill shoved down the throats of the American 
people, without the voice of the majority of the Members of this House 
having anything to do with this energy plan.
  Look right here and see what it doesn't do: No real offshore 
exploration; no renewables without high taxes; no real oil shale 
drilling; off limits permanently, Arctic coastal plain; emissions-free 
nuclear, no; clean coal, coal-to-liquid, no; new refinery capacity, no. 
We got five of them out in Texas right now. No energy tax hike, no; no 
electricity spikes, no; lawsuit reform, no; playing politics with 
energy, yes.
  That is what we have been given today. That is what we have. 
Meanwhile, on the coast, people suffer. Let's really address energy.

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