[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 147 (Tuesday, September 16, 2008)]
[House]
[Page H8148]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 REPUBLICANS GOT AMERICA INTO THIS MESS

  (Mr. WEINER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. WEINER. Mr. Speaker, my colleagues on the other side have finally 
found the forum perfectly equipped for their ideas: one 60-second burst 
at a time filled with rhetoric and no new ideas. This is the perfect 
forum for the Republicans in Congress now.
  We know that because when they controlled Congress, they passed their 
own energy bill, signed into law by the President, we got into this 
mess. This is the President whose idea of an energy policy is holding 
hands with the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, embracing him with a big 
smooch.
  If my colleagues want to do something interesting, go to 
opensecrets.org. Look at the donations of ExxonMobil, look at Texaco, 
look at all of those, and look at the ``Rs'' next to all of the people 
who got it.
  I gotta tell you something. The status quo is perfect. We govern over 
here, and on that side, 60 seconds of bluster at a time, 60 seconds of 
rhetoric at a time, 60 seconds of ``drill, baby, drill'' at a time.
  If you want to govern the country, you had your chance and you blew 
it. Look at the energy bill you passed.

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