[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 14849]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              DEMOCRAT MAJORITY IS HOLDING AMERICA HOSTAGE

  (Ms. GINNY BROWN-WAITE of Florida asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. GINNY BROWN-WAITE of Florida. Mr. Speaker, in the 1970s our 
Nation was held hostage by OPEC starting an oil embargo that drove up 
gasoline prices and damaged the American economy. Today it's not OPEC 
holding us hostage but rather the Democratic majority that refuses to 
expand domestic energy production.
  My constituents are hurting, $4.10 a gallon of gasoline for regular, 
smaller boxes of cereal, diesel prices are through the roof hurting 
those truckers and higher prices for air conditioning bills. All of 
these increased costs shrink the wallets of working Americans and hurt 
even more the seniors on fixed incomes.
  When will this majority wake up and realize that 73 percent of 
America approves of drilling? When will the majority admit that their 
energy policy will do nothing at all to lower prices at the pump?
  Mr. Speaker, ideas to raise the gas tax 50 cents when we are in the 
midst of a national gasoline crisis are a bad joke pushed on the 
American public. We need to support our constituents and support 
drilling.

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