[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14564]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                             ENERGY POLICY

  (Mrs. BLACKBURN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak on a subject that 
is first on the minds and the wallets of the American public, and that 
is the cost of rising energy prices.
  We are in the middle of the summer, and prices at the pump are above 
$3 a gallon in much of America. The liberal leadership was going to fix 
the high gas prices, and they have responded by offering no solutions. 
They offered so-called ``price gouging'' legislation, but it did 
nothing to address the root problem of high gas prices.
  The American public wants innovation, not procrastination. They want 
energy exploration, not bureaucratic red tape. They want this Congress 
to do their jobs and put forth a plan that will power this country, 
self sufficiently, into this century and beyond. The liberal 
leadership, meanwhile, is missing in action on the issue.
  America needs to change the way we look at how we produce energy, and 
in the next couple of weeks the Republican Conference will take the 
lead in unfurling a long-term energy plan for the future. It will not 
only address our immediate power concerns but those for decades to 
come.

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