[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 11891]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



     IT IS DEMOCRATS WHO HAVE PUT CALIFORNIA INTO THIS ENERGY MESS

  (Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I am sick and tired of being 
sick and tired; sick and tired of hearing Democrats complain about the 
energy crisis. The last time I checked, the Democrat Governor Gray 
Davis was and is in charge of California. The last time I checked, 
Democrats also controlled the White House for 8 long years and did 
nothing. Bill Clinton and Al Gore had plenty of time to examine and 
solve the energy crisis in California while they were out there 
visiting Buddhist temples, but they did not. Instead, Democrats like 
Daschle and Gephardt just play the blame game.
  Democrats are blaming George Bush and Dick Cheney for the California 
energy problem. They must have forgotten this administration just took 
office. If the Democrats had been wise, they would have been drilling 
for oil, building new energy plants and building new transmission 
lines. That is what it takes to solve the problem is finding resources. 
In short, it is the Democrats who put California into this mess. 
Americans do not want, need or deserve the California energy problems.

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