[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 147 (Tuesday, September 16, 2008)]
[House]
[Pages H8144-H8145]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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               COMPREHENSIVE ALL-OF-THE-ABOVE ENERGY PLAN

  (Mr. KLINE of Minnesota asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KLINE of Minnesota. Mr. Speaker, for 5 weeks, all during the 
month of August and September, Republicans were on the floor of this 
House with the microphones off and the cameras off demanding a 
comprehensive all-of-the-above energy plan. We were demanding that we 
have open debate and

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that we have a vote, the very thing that then-minority leader Nancy 
Pelosi demanded, saying that the minority party should have the right 
to present its alternatives, have a debate and have a vote. That's what 
we've been asking for for weeks and weeks and weeks.
  We believe that we need a comprehensive all-of-the-above energy plan. 
This is not a comprehensive, all-of-the-above energy plan. This is not.
  Just for example, in the American Energy Act, the Republican bill, we 
call for emission-free nuclear power. This is the one place in the 
world I can think of where the French actually have it right. They get 
80 percent of their electrical power from nuclear energy.
  We haven't built a new nuclear energy plant in this country in years, 
and we never will if we adopt this plan. We need a comprehensive all-
of-the-above plan.

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