[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 72 (Tuesday, May 12, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H5449]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           CLEAN ENERGY JOBS

  (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, later this week or next week, the House 
Energy and Commerce Committee will advance President Obama's clean 
energy jobs program, and we will do that by maximizing the job creation 
potential of renewable clean energy and energy efficiency.
  I saw the enormous potential of job creation this weekend in Seattle, 
Washington, where I went to the MacDonald-Miller Company, a company 
that installs highly efficient energy efficiency heating and cooling 
systems, where they have found they can reduce energy usage by 12 
percent simply by putting in a system that will adjust the energy 
depending on what the temperature is outside.
  Now if we could get huge efficiency measures like that and put 
hundreds of people to work, like they are doing at MacDonald-Miller, 
we're going to find that we can grow our economy while solving global 
climate change as well.
  The energy bill we will do will require 15 percent clean energy and 5 
percent efficiency. That's a vision for the future. We're going to pass 
President Obama's clean energy jobs plan. That's a good thing for the 
U.S. economy.

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