[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 152 (Wednesday, September 24, 2008)]
[House]
[Page H9089]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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             MOVE FORWARD ON THE ECONOMIC AND ENERGY CRISES

  (Mr. GOODLATTE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GOODLATTE. Mr. Speaker, last night the Democratic leadership 
announced under considerable pressure that the continuing resolution to 
keep our government operating will not include an extension of the 
moratorium on drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf, the moratorium 
on drilling in Alaska, the moratorium on extracting oil from the oil 
shale in the Rocky Mountain States. That's good news. That's a step in 
the right direction, but it's only the first step.
  The American people at this time, as the Congress addresses concerns 
about the financial crisis facing the country, need to know that the 
Congress is also going to stop the hemorrhage of money out of this 
country, at the rate of $700 billion a year, buying foreign oil. We 
need to have the American Energy Act that the Republican leadership and 
the vast majority of Republican Members have offered, the all-of-the-
above energy act, energy that will increase drilling on our Outer 
Continental Shelf in Alaska and in the Rocky Mountain States, increase 
natural gas production, clean-burning coal, nuclear power, and 
alternative forms of energy like solar, wind, hydrogen, geothermal, and 
biomass.
  We need all of the above, and we need it now before we go home.

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