[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11061]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  AMERICA'S ENERGY NEEDS ARE CHANGING

  (Mrs. MILLER of Michigan asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. MILLER of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, America's energy needs are 
changing, and our current situation is certainly different than the oil 
shocks that we all saw in the 1970s, because there has not been a 
disruption in supply but an increase in demand from emerging economies 
such as China.
  And what kind of leadership on energy issues do we get from the 
Democrats and their Presidential nominee, Senator John Kerry? Nothing 
but finger-pointing and continued bowing to the radical 
environmentalists that will not allow America to retrieve our own 
energy reserves.
  The result of this lack of leadership is higher prices at the 
gasoline pumps, higher prices for families to heat their homes, and 
greater dependence on foreign sources of energy.
  In ANWR, we have huge supplies of oil and natural gas that if we were 
to retrieve would have great benefit for America: greater energy 
independence, lower prices at the pump, lower prices to heat our homes, 
and hundreds of thousands of new jobs.
  These policies from the Democrats do nothing more than to lead us 
permanently into high prices and greater reliance on Middle Eastern 
oil. These are policies that our Nation simply cannot afford.

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