[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 17925]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               DEMOCRATS ARE MAKING A BAD SITUATION WORSE

  (Mr. AKIN asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. AKIN. Madam Speaker, there once was an incompetent pharmacist who 
administered too much medicine and thereby made a bad situation worse, 
and the patient died.
  The Democrats are like the incompetent pharmacist. They recognize 
that gas prices are too high and they recognize it's bad for us to be 
dependent on foreign oil. So the Democrats have voted to administer a 
dose of their favorite medicine, tax increases. They plan to increase 
taxes on American oil and gas. But the oil companies will simply raise 
the price of gasoline. In addition, by making American oil more 
expensive, it will further make us dependent on Middle Eastern oil.
  The Democrats should look at drilling for American oil and liquefying 
coal, two things that they have opposed in the past. The Democrats are 
writing the wrong prescription and they make a bad situation worse. I 
just hope the patient doesn't die.

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