[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 21]
[House]
[Page 29439]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     HOUSE TO CONSIDER ENERGY BILL

  (Mr. DEFAZIO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DeFAZIO. Madam Speaker, here it is, the long-awaited, secretly 
negotiated energy bill, a bill carefully designed to perpetuate our 
dependence on foreign oil, brokered by national, international, 
multinational conglomerates which will be subsidized to the tune of $25 
billion by United States taxpayers; the Enron provision to repeal the 
Public Utility Holding Company Act, guaranteeing a new round of 
mergers, speculation and rip-offs of electric consumers.
  I can see only one benefit in this bill. It is huge, it is heavy, it 
is made of paper. If we take and send a copy to every American taxpayer 
and consumer, they can throw it in the wood stove or the fireplace and 
get a little bit of warmth, but that will be the only benefit they get 
out of this legislation.

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