[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 26 (Friday, February 12, 2016)]
[House]
[Pages H778-H779]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  NEW OIL TAXES COST AMERICAN FAMILIES

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, President Obama has proposed a new $10-per-
barrel tax on oil. That represents 24 cents in new taxes on every 
gallon of gas. That is right, 24 cents per gallon of new cost for 
families. When families are finally feeling the benefit of lower cost 
fuel, this President proposes a

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plan to take those savings away from families.
  Worse, this new tax on driving will actually go to fund pie-in-the-
sky government boondoggles like California's high-speed rail projects 
and many other pet projects of the President. That pet project in 
California has tripled in price since its first inception.
  The American people paid a record amount of taxes last year to the 
Treasury, over $3.2 trillion, or nearly $22,000 per working American; 
yet there are those in government who still want to take more and spend 
more.
  I say ``no''--no more taxes on the American family; no more wasted 
billions of dollars on the President's and California Governor Brown's 
pet projects.
  I urge my colleagues to join me and put this country, instead, on a 
balanced budget track.

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