[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 147 (Tuesday, September 16, 2008)]
[House]
[Page H8143]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


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                       COMPREHENSIVE ENERGY PLAN

  (Mr. ELLISON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. ELLISON. Mr. Speaker, there is a real difference between the 
Democratic and Republican plans when it comes to energy. The 
comprehensive Democratic plan is an American-owned, 21st-century energy 
plan, and the Republican plan is not.
  The Democratic plan lowers prices for consumers and protects 
taxpayers, expands renewable sources of energy, and increases our 
security by freeing America from the grip of foreign oil. Perhaps this 
is the problem with the objection to the Democratic plan: it requires 
Big Oil to pay what it owes taxpayers. It ends subsidies to Big Oil 
companies. Maybe some people don't like that. And it creates good-
paying jobs here in America.
  The Republican bill is more of the same old Bush-Cheney, two oilmen 
in the White House energy policy written by and for the oil companies. 
It is time to end that policy.

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