[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16297]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     ATTACKING OIL COMPANY PROFITS

  (Mr. EMANUEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. EMANUEL. Mr. Speaker, yesterday Exxon reported its second-highest 
quarterly profit ever. Net income, $10 billion, up 36 percent. But they 
are not the only ones raking in the cash. Shell reported a 40-percent 
increase in profit. BP, a 30-percent increase. ConocoPhilips, a 65-
percent increase in profit.
  And whom does this oil industry have to thank? Lee Raymond and his 
outsized $400 million retirement package?
  No. The oil companies have the Republican Congress to thank for their 
huge bank accounts. In 2005, the oil and gas companies spent $86 
million lobbying the United States Congress, and they received $14.5 
billion in taxpayer-funded handouts. You cannot get that type of return 
on Wall Street or in Vegas. $86 million for lobbying, $14.5 billion in 
corporate welfare. So Americans are paying twice, once when they fill 
up their tanks, and then again on April 15.
  We must stop handing out welfare checks to Big Oil. It is high time 
big oil companies got off the taxpayer dole.
  Mr. Speaker, it is time for a change. And it is time for a new 
direction.

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