[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12086]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                        AMERICA'S ENERGY POLICY

  (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, while California experiences blackouts, and 
respirating equipment that is needed for those critically ill goes 
silent, Gray Davis is hyperventilating and pointing fingers at 
Washington.
  Let us review the Democratic energy policy over the last 8 years 
under the past administration. Let me see: Hazel O'Leary, Secretary of 
Energy, goes to the Taj Mahal and spends $1 million of taxpayer money 
to beautify it before she arrives.
  Let me see: Bill Richardson, while on his watch, loses our Nation's 
energy secrets, and we become vulnerable to outside influences.
  During the last campaign, when energy prices were skyrocketing, the 
Clinton White House's brilliant idea was to reduce and use the oil from 
the strategic reserves.
  Sound bite politics from their side, sensitive politics from ours. We 
are working on the energy needs of America. We are seeking a plan that 
will revolutionize the way we are dependent on oil. We are looking at a 
conservation model. We are looking at new technology. We are coming up 
with answers, not rhetoric.
  I admonish the Democrats to start participating and stop finger-
pointing. And Gray Davis could lead the parade by stop spending $30,000 
of taxpayer money a month for political consultants and start working 
with energy consultants to save his State.

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