[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 76 (Wednesday, May 19, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H3546]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          CANCEL ALL FEDERAL CONTRACTS WITH BRITISH PETROLEUM

  (Mr. GUTIERREZ asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GUTIERREZ. Yesterday I urged my colleagues to stop drilling 
leases from going to BP. We need action now. If Congress can stop BP 
from receiving government leases, then BP can and should stand for 
Banned Permanently.
  But why stop here? We must go further. Today I urge my colleagues to 
join me to cancel all Federal contracts with BP. How much money are we 
talking about? In 2009 alone, the Department of Defense paid at least 
$1.5 billion to BP--$1.5 billion with a B. In other words, big profits 
for them.
  We need to audit and to stop our taxpayer dollars from going to BP, a 
company pumping millions of barrels of black poison into our water and 
towards our shores. Let's ban permanently BP's black poison and 
eliminate BP's big profits along with their British pollution.

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