[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 147 (Tuesday, September 16, 2008)]
[House]
[Page H8150]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               GRAND OLD OIL PARTY HAS A CASE OF AMNESIA

  (Mr. DeFAZIO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DeFAZIO. Well, the Grand Old Oil Party has a case of collective 
amnesia. They would hope that the American people will share in their 
amnesia. The American people should forget that for 6 years they 
controlled everything, the House, the White House and the Congress. And 
for 6 years they labored and they brought forth the Bush-Cheney energy 
policy. I voted against it, as did most Democrats. We said it would 
make us even more dependent upon Saudi Arabia--one of the President's 
best friends here, the King of Saudi Arabia--and it has. It has worked 
exactly as they designed.
  Now they're born again into caring about other forms of energy and 
energy independence and American consumers. It's just a smoke screen to 
cover for their continued addiction to the contributions of the oil 
industry and to fighting for the oil industry to continue that 
addiction.
  We're bringing forward a bill to break that dependence, to break the 
enslavement to OPEC, and to move this country toward true energy 
independence on domestic resources and new technologies and jobs. I 
don't think anybody believes that they really care about the American 
consumers.

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