[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 15864-15865]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       AMERICA WILL VOTE TO DRILL

  (Mr. PENCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PENCE. Well, back in Indiana, Hoosier families are hurting. Pain 
at the pump is harming the vitality of our families, our family farms, 
and small businesses, and the time has come for Congress to act.
  Madam Speaker, we've heard from many of our Democrat colleagues that 
the answer is to go deeper into our Strategic Petroleum Reserve. I 
believe the answer is to go deeper into the reserves that are in the 
Outer Continental Shelf, in Alaska, and in the Gulf of Mexico.
  The American people know the only way to lessen our dependence on 
foreign oil is to lessen our dependence on foreign oil by giving the 
American people more access to American oil.
  I joined all my Indiana colleagues this past Monday at a press 
conference in Hoosier State urging you, Madam Speaker, to bring to this 
floor a vote on allowing American oil companies access to the Outer 
Continental Shelf. The President's lifted his executive

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ban. Now the only thing standing in between the American people and 
more access to American oil is one up-or-down vote on the floor of the 
Congress.
  I urge you respectfully, Madam Speaker, bring the bill to the floor 
to allow the American people access to the reserves in this Outer 
Continental Shelf, and that bill will pass. If Congress is allowed to 
work its will, America will vote to drill.

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