[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 45 (Tuesday, March 23, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H2218]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING, THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Madam Speaker, there's a new push to drill for oil 
in the Gulf of Mexico. The ``Drill Here, Drill Now'' slogan is finally 
sinking in. But the new rigs won't be flying American flags. They'll be 
Russian rigs drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico--right there off 
our own shores.
  The Russians and the Cubans are now in cahoots to drill for oil we 
should be obtaining. Then they'll probably sell it back to us at an 
increased price. We don't drill off our own coast, so we have to import 
more crude oil. And it gets worse every year. It's costing Americans 
millions. Plus, Americans won't be getting those high-dollar rig jobs.
  We have our own natural resources, but refuse to explore them because 
of the elitists. We're a decade or more away from green technology--
when we all will be driving those itty-bitty toy cars that you can buy 
by the six-pack. But the anti-American energy elites dominate Congress 
and the White House. Unfortunately, they'll let us freeze in the dark 
before they will allow offshore drilling.
  And that's just the way it is.

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