[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 5]
[House]
[Pages 6834-6835]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               LET'S REDUCE OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL

  (Mr. PENCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PENCE. Mr. Speaker, gas prices are too high, and so Washington 
has already begun to posture.
  I know how angry people can become when gas prices rise. I spent 5 
years working my way through college pumping gas at Ray's Marathon. And 
it is important that Washington respond.

[[Page 6835]]

But we ought to respond with the real answer, which is to reduce our 
dependence on foreign oil by opening up America's own domestic reserves 
in the intercoastal regions and the Alaskan National Wildlife Region.
  If the U.S. Geological Survey is correct, if we opened up ANWR, we 
could increase our domestic reserves by 50 percent. If President Bill 
Clinton had not vetoed legislation opening ANWR to environmentally 
responsible exploration in 1995, we would be pumping millions of 
barrels from ANWR today.
  Let's reduce the price of gasoline for future generations of 
Americans. Let's reduce our dependence on foreign oil.

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