[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14553]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        ENERGY INDEPENDENCE ACT

  (Mr. SHUSTER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. SHUSTER. Madam Speaker, last week I traveled across my district 
to talk about energy and announce my legislation, H.R. 6421, the Energy 
Independence Act. My district is fed up with what Congress has not 
done. It is time for us to do something when it comes to investing in 
domestic energy policy, and my legislation does just that.
  Number one, it opens the Outer Continental Shelf to drilling. Two, it 
creates a tax credit to develop coal-to-liquid fuel technologies and 
projects. Three, it opens up ANWR and puts regulations and restrictions 
on it to make sure that ANWR is developed responsibly. Four, it creates 
an alternative energy trust fund to pay for renewables and alternative 
energies. And five, it streamlines the licensing process to allow for 
new nuclear power plants in our country.
  Drilling alone will not earn us energy independence, but it is a 
critical step that we must do coupled with investment in alternative 
and renewable energies. Let's join together to begin to solve the 
energy problem in this country. Americans demand it; but more 
importantly, they deserve it.

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