[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 3]
[House]
[Pages 3541-3542]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               ENCOURAGE MARKET DEVELOPMENT FOR BIOFUELS

  (Mr. SESSIONS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. Speaker, the Republican Party of this country is 
dedicated to coming to Washington, DC, and serving the people who 
believe that America's greatest days lie in our future. But there is 
also incumbent within that promise the opportunity to present new and 
better ideas that will help this country to deal with the things that 
lay ahead of us.
  Yesterday, in the Rules Committee, Congressman Michael Burgess from 
Texas offered an amendment that would have doubled the tax credit for 
making biodiesel from recycled restaurant grease from 50 cents a gallon 
to $1 a gallon. This comes as a result of Mr. Burgess' working 
firsthand with people within his district who are trying to solve 
problems of not only air pollution, but also to take things that might 
normally be dumped into a recycle bin that ends up going somewhere to 
sit in a landfill.
  Mr. Speaker, I think that Congressman Burgess deserves the respect of 
this House for new and better ideas that will help make sure that 
America is facing the problems that lie ahead of us and to make sure 
that we have answers for it.

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  I congratulate Congressman Burgess for bringing these ideas forward, 
and I hope we will continue to have other Members of this body do the 
same.

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