[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 111 (Tuesday, July 27, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H6047]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 PRESIDENT OBAMA'S JOB KILLING MORATORIUM ON AMERICAN ENERGY PRODUCTION

  (Mr. BOUSTANY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BOUSTANY. Madam Speaker, I rise to highlight what the President's 
capricious and arbitrary moratorium on American energy production is 
doing to families.
  The wife of a rig worker forwarded a letter to me that she sent to 
the President and to Secretary Salazar saying that while they may not 
need regular work, she and her family cannot keep going without jobs. 
Her family has bills to pay which are now 3 months behind, and they 
will lose almost everything they've ever worked for as a result of this 
arbitrary moratorium on energy production.
  Her husband relies on rig exploration jobs, and even sent copies of 
their bills. She said her bank will not wait out the moratorium to 
receive her mortgage payment of over $3,000 past due. She said her 
family will probably lose their cars. They won't even have a car to 
live in if this thing persists.
  Due to the moratorium, her husband lost a 30-day exploration job that 
would pay $732 a day, a total of $21,960 for 30 days. This is an 
arbitrary and malicious moratorium, and it needs to end.

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