[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15151]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                ENERGY PRODUCTION NEEDED FOR OUR FUTURE

  (Mr. GIBBONS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GIBBONS. Mr. Speaker, the energy crisis America is facing is 
still with us. Americans need our country to invest in and produce more 
energy from the few sites we have available on our public lands. That 
is the goal of the bipartisan Energy Security Act which will allow for 
the production of wind, solar and geothermal energies on public lands. 
These are clean energies, renewable energies that leave our environment 
untouched.
  We cannot keep pretending our energy challenges will take care of 
themselves if we just wait long enough. When we fail to act, prices 
rise and our seniors and small businesses, our farmers and low-income 
families suffer. They suffered last winter. They suffered this spring. 
They are suffering now under the hot summer sun. Be assured, without a 
comprehensive plan they will suffer next year, and the year after that.
  We need to have the courage and the vision to realize that increased 
energy production plays a key role in a sound national energy policy. 
We need to pass the Republican energy package for the sake of our 
future, for the sake of America.

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