[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12642]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




   GAS PRICES ARE HIGH DUE TO BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S FAILURE TO ENACT 
                             ENERGY POLICY

  (Mr. KAGEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. KAGEN. Madam Speaker, as we move closer to Memorial Day weekend 
and the summer months ahead, families in Wisconsin and across the 
country will be packing up their families to head off on vacation, like 
up north in Minocqua, Door County in Wisconsin. And once again, gas 
prices are hitting record highs. American families and small businesses 
everywhere are bearing the full weight of the Bush administration's 
failure to enact a meaningful energy policy.
  On Monday, the President announced his most recent attempt to do 
something, and once again it is another insufficient and inadequate 
solution. This failed attempt at energy policy is a placebo. It is a 
fake solution to a very serious problem. There is a better way of doing 
things, and it begins with energy efficiency, developing renewable 
energy resources and moving away from fossil fuels.

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