[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 114 (Friday, July 30, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H6462]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  SPECIAL TREATMENT FOR SPECIAL PEOPLE

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute).
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, the Federal Government has decided 
some people are more special than others. The administration thinks the 
Wall Street elites are special. The big banks and the big auto 
industries, well, they are really special and too big to fail, but the 
administration has decided the blue-collar workers who do the rough 
work on the oil rigs and provide American energy--just aren't special.
  The blue-collar guys don't want handouts like the special interest 
big shots got. They just want their jobs back.
  But the administration not only won't treat these workers special, 
the administration just took their jobs away because of the offshore 
drilling moratorium. Now these American jobs are headed to Brazil, 
Libya and to Egypt.
  The drilling moratorium is not based on science, it's arbitrary. Two 
courts have so ruled. Five Americans are killed on highways every hour. 
I don't see anyone wanting to close all the roads down.
  The deep-water moratorium should end. The offshore workers should get 
their jobs back, but that's not going to happen any time soon because 
it's only special treatment for special folks, and they are just not 
that special.
  And that's just the way it is.

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