[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 17071]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             ENERGY CRISIS

  (Mr. KLINE of Minnesota asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KLINE of Minnesota. Madam Speaker, day after day, we come to this 
floor to address the important issues facing our Nation. A quick 
review, however, of the last few weeks shows we have voted on new names 
for post offices and to congratulate our sports teams. But Congress has 
not taken any real steps to address the rapidly rising price of 
gasoline and ease American's pain at the pump. And apparently, House 
Democrats again are not going to let Members vote to ease that pain.
  This month, I have been touring energy facilities in Minnesota's 
Second District that highlight a variety of new, clean and reliable 
sources of energy being produced right there in Minnesota. I visited a 
hydropower plant on the Mississippi River in Hastings, a nuclear power 
plant in Welch, an energy-from-waste in Red Wing, an oil refinery in 
Rosemont, a wind turbine in Northfield, and an electric-generating 
facility in Faribault.
  Madam Speaker, I visited all of these energy producers to learn more 
and to illustrate that we need an ``all of the above'' energy plan and 
we need to enact it now. Congress should not adjourn for 5 weeks of 
vacation and politics without dealing with the number one issue in the 
minds of the American people, high energy prices.

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