[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10103]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        WE NEED A POLICY CHANGE

  (Mr. HINCHEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HINCHEY. Mr. Speaker, when the national Republican Party took us 
to war in Iraq, the average price of gasoline across the country was 
$1.40 cents a gallon, and we were told that the cost of the war in Iraq 
would be negligible because it would be paid for by the oil in Iraq.
  Now, 14 months later, the price of gasoline in America is more than 
$2 a gallon and the war in Iraq is costing us $200 billion. The 
Republican energy plan is to increase our dependence on foreign oil. 
Their plan for Iraq is more of the same.
  With, now, almost 800 American servicemen and -women dead, 4,000 
injured, it is quite obvious we need a different policy and a different 
leadership. It is time for a change.

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