[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 30 (Friday, February 13, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H1524]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ECONOMIC RECOVERY PLAN

  (Mr. INSLEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. INSLEE. Madam Speaker, one of the attributes of this economic 
recovery plan is it is not based on yesterday; it is based on tomorrow.
  It is not your grandmother's recovery plan where we just built 
asphalt and concrete; it is built on the new high-tech green collar 
jobs that can truly give us a prolonged burst of economic recovery. And 
that is why, when I vote for this today, I am going to be proud that we 
are launching a new Apollo clean energy project to give this country 
the thousands of green collar jobs, to start selling high-tech clean 
energy products to China, to start making lithium ion batteries so that 
we can make electric cars right here in America and start selling them 
across the world. And I hope some of my brethren across the aisle will 
not vote against research so we can find a way to burn coal cleanly, 
against research to make electric cars more affordable to Americans, 
against research to make our houses more efficient.
  This is a plan to start an economic energy revolution. We should pass 
it and be proud of it today.

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