[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]




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                  WE DON'T NEED A SHAM POLITICAL BILL

  (Mr. HENSARLING asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HENSARLING. Mr. Speaker, since the Democrats took control of the 
House, prices at the pump have increased 75 percent, I would say to my 
friend from New York. Their response, take a 6-week vacation while the 
American people suffer.
  Then they come back and, in the dead of night, present us with a 240-
page nonenergy bill, no amendments, no substitutes, no committee 
hearings. Is this democracy? No. Is there any difference in Nancy 
Pelosi's America and Hugo Chavez's Venezuela? I think not.
  This is a sham. This is a fraud. This is a bill designed to ensure 
Democrats' reelection, not designed to ensure affordable energy in 
America.
  No new refineries in their bill, no clean coal, no ANWR, no nuclear 
and, if you read it, no Outer Continental Shelf; 85 percent still off 
limits.
  Democrats look at our oil and gas reserves and say these are toxic 
waste reserves. Republicans look at our oil and gas reserves and say 
valuable natural resources to ease the pain at the pump.
  Mr. Speaker, we need American energy made in America for Americans. 
We don't need a sham political bill.

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