[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 185 (Thursday, December 10, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H14449]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      OPTIMISM ABOUT CLEAN ENERGY

  (Mr. INSLEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. INSLEE. Mr. Speaker, I hear that the former Vice President has 
made an assertion about the Governor who quit in Alaska, Sarah Palin. 
He asserted that hers is the attitude of a denier, a denier of the 
clear need to address global warming. But that attitude is worse than 
being a denier.
  It is the attitude of a defeatist, because the defeatists believe 
that we Americans can't build electric cars. The defeatists believe we 
can't, in America, build solar thermal plants. The defeatists believe 
we can't build offshore wind turbine plants. The defeatists believe 
that we can't build thousands of jobs here in America, rather than 
allow those jobs in clean energy to go to China.
  When those people like Sarah Palin, who have the attitude of 
defeatists, join us in a sense of optimism that we can change our 
economy to a green collar economy, we will build a clean energy economy 
that is the envy of the world. And we urge them to join us.

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