[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 15]
[House]
[Pages 20067-20068]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            NO RECESS UNTIL ACTION IS TAKEN ON ENERGY PRICES

  (Ms. SLAUGHTER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. SLAUGHTER. Mr. Speaker, this do-less-than-nothing Congress just 
returned from another recess, and already the Republicans are preparing 
to adjourn at the end of this week so they can go home and campaign. 
This is not what people sent us here to do. They expect us to address 
issues of importance and to do our best to improve their quality of 
life.
  Yet, Republicans in this body seem content to head back home, having 
had ``dead-horse week'' and bills yesterday that will never see the 
light of day in the Senate; and they are expecting us at home to do 
this to improve their quality of life.
  Democrats are committed to finding solutions, not ones that involve 
destroying our natural resources for short-term gains or ones that rely 
on Middle Eastern potentates to ensure

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our way of life, and certainly not the so-called solutions that provide 
tax breaks to oil companies and not to consumers.
  Instead, we are committed to cracking down on price gouging, 
repealing the $8 billion in tax breaks to oil companies, and investing 
in new energy technologies to really end our dependence on foreign oil.
  Mr. Speaker, we do not have time to do nothing about the energy 
crisis. I ask unanimous consent to bring up H.R. 4479 to repeal the oil 
company subsidies and give a break to consumers and small businesses.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the settled guidelines previously 
cited, that request cannot be entertained.

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