[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]




                   ALL-OF-THE-ABOVE ENERGY ACT NEEDED

  (Mr. GINGREY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GINGREY. Mr. Speaker, for the last 2 months we have been telling 
the Speaker and the Democratic majority that we need an all-of-the-
above American Energy Act, and the Speaker has responded by saying any 
bill that includes drilling is a hoax.
  Well, Mr. Speaker, she has presented at 10 o'clock last night a 290-
page hoax in regard to the drilling provision. It is absolutely a hoax. 
It gives absolutely no revenues to the States for any drilling between 
50 and 100 miles. We already allow that off the coasts of Texas and 
Louisiana, and you are going to expect these east coast States or 
California to let us drill with no revenue sharing? It ain't going to 
happen, and she knows it.
  Now, in regard to the energy proposals that we have made in the 
American Energy Act, we have 10 up here, and none of these are included 
in the Pelosi no energy bill. None of the above. NOTA. Think of the 
acronym, N-O-T-A, not an energy bill.
  If she would give us four of these; real offshore exploration, 
emission-free nuclear, new refinery capacity, who could say we don't 
need that, and lawsuit reform, so the extreme environmentalists don't 
destroy every opportunity.
  This is not an energy bill. NOTA, N-O-T-A.

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