[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 104 (Wednesday, July 14, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H5552]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  TIMMY BERGERON WRITES THE PRESIDENT

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I received a letter from a really mad 
Cajun named Timmy Bergeron. He is from Houma, Louisiana, and runs an 
oil-related drilling business.
  Timmy's letter is to the President and says, ``I am terribly troubled 
that after striving to find jobs for Americans, you make a hasty 
decision to stop drilling for 6 months. Did you stop coal mining after 
all the incidents they have been having? No. Did you stop the airlines 
after all the crashes and accidents they have been having? No. Now you 
want to shut down the oil industry for 6 months, which will hurt tens 
of thousands of workers! I only hope you understand the trickle-down 
effect this will have on many industries.''
  Mr. Speaker, the rest of the letter gets a bit more colorful, but Mr. 
Bergeron wants to know why the President is intentionally putting him 
out of business. Maybe the President will write him back. Meanwhile, 
the ill-advised deepwater drilling ban is putting people out of work 
and is the second disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
  And that's just the way it is.

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