[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16474]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              {time}  1015
                   AMERICA IS AT AN ENERGY CROSSROAD

  (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, we in America are at an energy 
crossroad. Now, one road will lead to price controls and a potential 
energy crisis that would remind us of the 1970s. The other would lead 
to cutting-edge technology that will provide affordable, reliable 
energy for decades to come.
  Yet, the liberal leadership in this House has chosen to revert to the 
1970s and repeat that history. Today, the Energy appropriations bill 
under consideration will underfund nuclear production by $20 million in 
one account, hydroelectric power by $20 million in another account, and 
other forms of American productivity by hundreds of millions of 
dollars.
  And where does the money go? Well, it goes to fund research for 
climate change in another bow to the religion of global warming.
  And in coordination with other House and some Senate legislation, we 
find out that some of these proposals could end up raising the price of 
a gallon of gas over the next couple of decades to $6 a gallon.
  We need to focus on energy independence today. It is what the 
American people want.

                          ____________________