[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13884]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       BUSH-CHENEY ADMINISTRATION

  (Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. Madam Speaker, Members of the House, 
as American families struggle with the rising cost of energy, as it 
makes their commute to work even more expensive, as they think about 
buying home heating oil for this winter, think how it could have been.
  Think how their lives would have been different if, for the last 7 
years, instead of defending the subsidies for big oil companies, the 
tax breaks for big oil companies and the royalty holidays for big oil 
companies, the Bush administration and the Cheney administration had 
put their heads together and had thought about the future as opposed to 
the past. But when you have two oil men together in the Oval Office in 
the White House, they think about the past, and that is protecting the 
oil companies; it is not about the future.
  Think if President Bush had come out for any increase in the mileage 
standards 7 years ago where we would have been, instead of defending 
for 32 years the right of the automobile companies to keep us away from 
more efficient automobiles.
  But that would have been the future. The Bush-Cheney administration 
has never thought about the future; they have only thought about the 
past, and that has turned out to be terribly, terribly costly to the 
American consumer.

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