[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 10]
[House]
[Pages 13423-13424]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              WHAT IS CONGRESS DOING TO LOWER GAS PRICES?

  (Ms. FOXX asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, my constituents, almost every single one, want 
to know what Congress is doing to lower the gas prices. Here is part of 
a letter from Matthew, a Boy Scout, from Winston-Salem, North Carolina: 
The problem I'm talking about how the gas prices are so high. If gas 
prices keep going up, we won't be able to go on vacation, we won't be 
able to go to the grocery store, we won't be able to go to church.
  This is completely unacceptable for my constituents and also 
unacceptable for the constituents represented by my friends on the 
other side of the aisle. Unfortunately, it's because of the out-of-
touch Democrat leadership that Congress has done nothing to combat 
record gas prices. Democrats pledged to deliver low gas prices well 
before they even took control of Congress promising a ``commonsense'' 
plan to lower gas prices. And here we are with national gas prices at 
$4 a gallon.
  While Democrats only offer more of the same--broken promises in tax 
increases--House Republicans are committed to pursuing solutions that 
will help alleviate the pain at the pump and grow the American economy.

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