[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 18911]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




    RECOMMENDING PASSAGE OF A COMPREHENSIVE AND BALANCED ENERGY PLAN

  (Mr. REHBERG asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. REHBERG. Mr. Speaker, another week has passed without a 
comprehensive and balanced energy plan. In the first 6 months of this 
year, we paid terrorists an average of $13 million a day for their oil. 
This must end. Because America does not have a comprehensive energy 
plan, we continue to purchase oil from the Middle East; but there is a 
balanced plan, and it does include increasing domestic oil production.
  More domestic oil will give us a stable supply and allow us to 
diminish our dependence on foreign oil. From January to June, we paid 
$2.3 billion to the countries that give suicide bombers thousands of 
dollars to threaten the very existence of democracy.
  Total reliance on energy resources from nations that harbor animosity 
towards America and our allies must become a thing of the past. Mr. 
Speaker, we need to unify as Americans and pass a comprehensive and 
balanced energy plan. The security of our Nation depends on eliminating 
our dependence on foreign oil.

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