[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 32 (Wednesday, February 26, 2014)]
[House]
[Page H1946]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    PRODUCTION TAX CREDIT EXTENSION

  (Mr. McDERMOTT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McDERMOTT. Mr. Speaker, while we fool around again with a lot of 
minor bills here today, we refuse to deal with the ones that we ought 
to be dealing with. We need to be involved in passing things that 
create jobs.
  Now, the production tax credit is an absolute no-brainer. We have 
used it for years and years. As long as I have been in the Congress it 
has been here, and the wind industry is dependent on it.
  It is 3,000 jobs in my State, and thousands of jobs across this 
country. We passed it in the nineties. We let it expire. We lost all 
the jobs, and we are doing it again.
  Now, climate change ought to be impressing people that we have to 
move away from fossil fuels and look for alternative energy, and this 
is the way we are going to do it.
  In the 20th century, we invested in aerospace and microchip 
industries through the production tax credit, and we made all the 
advances of the Internet and everything else on the basis of these 
Production Tax Credits.
  The 21st century is going to be about alternative energy, and this 
House dawdles around, attacking the IRS, and trying to repeal the ACA 
and all of this.
  Why don't you make it a suspension bill?
  It would pass in a minute.

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