[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 19436]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                AMERICA NEEDS NATIONAL POLICY ON ENERGY

  (Mr. FOLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FOLEY. Mr. Speaker, this past week the administration announced 
that we were releasing fuel from our Strategic Reserve, and it had 
nothing to do with politics or the upcoming election.
  And I thought, April Fools Day only came once a year.
  This administration has proven that it has no energy policy, unless 
that means stealing secrets from Los Alamos, then they are quite inept. 
The administration goes after Microsoft, a domestic company with great 
entrepreneurs, and leaves OPEC, the Organization of Petroleum States, 
untouched.
  We need in this country to create a national policy on energy. We 
need to look for alternative fuel sources and not be so reliant and so 
dependent on outside influences to take care of our oil. The recent 
announcement that we would release 30 million barrels of oil, as Tim 
Russert said on Meet the Press this week, will only last America 36 
hours.
  Mr. Speaker, we need a policy, not politics. We need help for 
American families, not quick sound bite solutions. We need new 
direction and new leadership, not the old standby rhetoric of saving 
America by using our most precious reserves for a political play rather 
than for helping American consumers.

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