[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 147 (Tuesday, September 16, 2008)]
[House]
[Page H8149]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        COMPREHENSIVE ENERGY ACT

  (Mr. PERLMUTTER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. PERLMUTTER. Mr. Speaker, it's great to be here this morning to 
talk in favor of a Comprehensive Energy Act that we're going to bring 
up on the floor today.
  My friends on the other side have been complaining for weeks that we 
don't have a comprehensive energy bill. We've passed bill after bill 
really designed to focus on new ways to power America. We can't be 
hooked on just one commodity anymore. We're hooked on oil. We are 
beholden to eight countries, most of which don't like us, and five oil 
companies. So we're always sort of at risk, and we've seen that this 
year with the price going straight up.
  So we've got a bill that talks about energy efficiency, renewable 
energy, and incorporates domestic drilling all over the place, quite 
frankly, coal, a whole variety of things.
  It's going to take our coming across the board with new policies with 
respect to energy to break our dependence on foreign oil. That's what 
this bill does.
  And I always say, is it any wonder with two oilmen in the White House 
that the price of oil went straight through the roof?

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