[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13783]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          GET WITH THE PROGRAM

  (Mr. BURTON of Indiana asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, the people of this country are 
pretty smart. They watch television and they listen to all of the 
political rhetoric and the hot air that comes out of this place, and 
they listen to all the press conferences, but they know, they know gas 
prices are too high and they know we ought to be energy independent and 
they know that we ought to drill in the United States so we can be 
energy independent. They know that it is affecting their prices at the 
grocery store and everything that they buy. They want us to be energy 
independent. They want us to drill in the ANWR and they want us to 
drill offshore in the Outer Continental Shelf. They want us to do what 
is right in this body. And we are not doing it.
  I want to say to my colleagues who are giving all of this hot air out 
about we shouldn't be doing it and about permits and everything else, 
the American people know they want us drilling in America. They want 
energy independence, and you guys had better get with the program.

                          ____________________