[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15414]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




          SUPPORTING A BALANCED AND COMPREHENSIVE ENERGY BILL

  (Mrs. WILSON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. WILSON. Mr. Speaker, today is an important day in the House. We 
are going to bring forward an energy bill, the first comprehensive 
energy bill we have had in this country for almost 20 years.
  It is a long-term, balanced approach to energy policy that includes 
increases in both production and conservation. But I have to give 
credit to both sides of the aisle here because this House decided to 
start with conservation.
  The bill includes a measure that will save 5 billion gallons of 
gasoline from SUV and light truck production over the next 6 years. 
That is the equivalent of parking the 1999 production of SUVs for 2 
years and not even driving them.
  It includes standards for televisions and appliances and energy 
efficiency, accelerating the clean coal program and tax credits for 
solar homes. Those tax credits in that bill do not go to big oil. They 
go to people like me and others like me who live in solar heated homes 
in the Southwest.
  This is a balanced, comprehensive approach that includes input from 
many rank-and-file Members of this House, and I commend the leadership 
and the bipartisan majority that will pass it today.

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