[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 17070]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




      DEMOCRATS ARE PROVIDING SOLUTIONS TO AMERICA'S ENERGY CRISIS

  (Mr. STUPAK asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. STUPAK. Madam Speaker, while Americans suffer pain at the pump, 
Republicans and President Bush continue every day to spew the same 
rhetoric about drilling, a move that would produce minimal savings in 
10 years.
  Democrats, on the other hand, are providing short-term and long-term 
solutions to America's energy crisis. We have repealed subsidies to 
profit-rich Big Oil, cracked down on price gouging, and invested in 
clean and renewable energy.
  We realize that Americans are hurting now, and they can't wait 10 
years for relief. So 2 months ago, Democrats forced President Bush to 
stop filling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Now we are urging the 
President to release oil from the Reserve, which would provide relief 
at the pump within 2 weeks.
  Unfortunately, Madam Speaker, President Bush and House Republicans 
are more interested in doing the bidding of Big Oil than actually 
providing relief to the American consumer today. How else can you 
explain their fixation with giving Big Oil more land to drill on when 
they aren't using the 68 million acres they already have?
  Democrats are taking our energy policy in a new direction, not one 
controlled by Big Oil.

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