[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 17690]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




      ANOTHER ENERGY BILL THAT DOESN'T PRODUCE AN OUNCE OF ENERGY

  (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, as a member of the Energy and Commerce 
Committee, I have been watching as we are pulling together this year's 
energy bill for the House; who is doing the cobbling; what they are 
including in the package, or, curiously, what they are leaving out.
  This is the current House leadership's second attempt this session to 
produce an energy bill that would address our energy dependence on 
unstable parts of the world, our strategic vulnerabilities that arise 
from that dependence, and the disastrous effects that high energy 
prices have on our ability to retain and produce American jobs.
  You would think that the Energy Committee would be a pretty good 
place to start on this. But last week, provisions in our committee's 
bill promoting additional energy production, especially production 
focussed on the clean and efficient use of American coal, were 
stripped. And unless my colleagues in committee are successful in 
putting them back in this week, then the Democrats will deliver another 
energy bill that does not produce an ounce of energy.
  It is time for us to address this issue.

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