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




                   DEATH PENALTY FOR POWER AND ENERGY

  (Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California asked and was given permission 
to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California. Mr. Speaker, this bill might be 
called the death penalty for power and energy. Why do I say that?
  If you look at how we utilize lethal injection in this country, the 
first injection actually sedates the individual. The second injection 
paralyzes the heart, thus killing the individual. What we have here is 
the first part of it is sedation. That's the bill today that claims 
it's for energy.
  But the fact of the matter is, with the litigation explosion we have 
based on the extremists in the environmental movement, the 
coconspirators with the Democratic Party on this, they've basically 
paralyzed our efforts to get any energy. Every single lease that's been 
granted over the last 2 years has been sued against. As a matter of 
fact, there are two lawsuits now that are already in effect with 
anything that we will lease in the future. So who's kidding whom?
  Let's break this conspiracy that exists between the extremists on the 
environmental side and the Democratic leadership. Let's give us real 
power. Let's reject this death penalty for power and energy that 
they're calling an energy bill. It's a fraud on the American people. We 
ought to understand that.
  We need to do better. The American people need to do better. Let me 
tell you this: If the Democrats have run out of energy, there's plenty 
of energy on this side of the aisle to do the right thing.

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