[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 73 (Wednesday, May 13, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H5492]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         GROW CLEAN ENERGY JOBS

  (Mr. INSLEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mr. INSLEE. Mr. Speaker, Americans are an optimistic people. That was 
confirmed yesterday when results came out showing that Americans 
believe, by a 2-1 margin, that we will grow clean energy jobs by the 
millions when we adopt a clean energy bill in this House, and they are 
right.
  We should be optimistic that we are going to build electric cars and 
sell them to the rest of the world, not just China. We ought to be 
optimistic that we are going to build concentrated solar energy 
technology and sell it to the rest of the world.
  We ought to be optimistic that we are going to build the electric 
batteries that will fuel our cars and help make our grid more 
responsive.
  This is the optimism that those of us have who are going to pass a 
clean energy bill this year to make this happen.
  Here is another reason for optimism. Yesterday we reached a consensus 
in the House Energy and Commerce Committee. With broad swathes of the 
country, the south-north industrial egg, we have reached a consensus 
that we are going to grow jobs everywhere in this country because we 
are the optimists, and the optimists are going to win this clean energy 
debate.

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