[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 3 (Wednesday, January 13, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H44]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               AMERICAN CONSERVATION AND CLEAN ENERGY ACT

  (Mr. TIM MURPHY of Pennsylvania asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. TIM MURPHY of Pennsylvania. Madam Speaker, the U.S. is $800 
billion in debt to China, and yet Congress continues to spend, having 
to raise the debt limit time and time again.
  We do not grow America's jobs by borrowing hundreds of billions from 
China, sending hundreds of billions of dollars to OPEC for oil, or 
taking hundreds of billions more from Americans in new taxes.
  What we can do, however, is by using some of our oil off our coast, 
we can use it to create jobs, restore our environment, use conservation 
and new technologies to cut waste and improve energy efficiency, 
develop innovative, efficient, and clean energy generation in all 
sectors, and rebuild America's inefficient transportation and energy 
infrastructure.
  By putting our resources to work, we put millions of Americans to 
work here at home, and all this can be done without raising taxes. I 
encourage my colleagues to join the effort by supporting and being 
cosponsors of H.R. 2227, the American Conservation and Clean Energy 
Independence Act. It's about new jobs for a new, clean America.

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