[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 12]
[House]
[Pages 16394-16395]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  CONGRESS SHOULD PASS AN ENERGY BILL

  (Mr. HEFLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)

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  Mr. HEFLEY. Madam Speaker, we are approaching the end of this 
Congress without sending an energy bill to the President. The House 
passed H.R. 4, the Securing America's Future Energy Act of 2001; and 
unfortunately, we are not, after 1 year from that passage, celebrating 
the signing of H.R. 4 into law.
  The President is still waiting to sign a comprehensive energy reform 
package that reduces our Nation's dependency on foreign oil. Why is the 
President still waiting, Madam Speaker? Not because of this House, who 
worked with the President to pass a comprehensive energy reform that 
increases America's national security. H.R. 4 was ignored by the party 
that controls the other body, who, instead, chose to take up and pass 
an energy package that did nothing to reduce our dependency on 
countries like Iraq and people like Saddam Hussein for our country's 
energy needs.
  Madam Speaker, let us send the President an energy bill that he can 
sign with confidence, one that increases both our economic security and 
our national security. Let us pass one that looks very much like the 
one we passed a year ago August.

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