[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 13]
[House]
[Pages 17420-17421]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                   LET'S VOTE ON AMERICAN ENERGY ACT

  (Ms. FALLIN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. FALLIN. Mr. Speaker, in just 2 weeks, children from all across 
America and in my district will be starting back to school. All over 
America, school officials are struggling with the rising costs of fuel. 
They have to run their buses twice a day for the next 9 months. And in 
some States, they're already talking about cutting back on bus routes. 
They're already talking about forcing some children to have to walk to 
school, and even going to four-day-a-week school classes. That's just 
not inconvenient for our families and our children, but it's flat-out 
dangerous for our children, especially our young ones.
  Day after day, we wait for this House and the Democratic leadership 
to allow us a vote on expanded energy resources, whether it is 
drilling, whether it is alternative resources--wind, solar, nuclear, 
refinery capacity, and day after day they say no.

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  In just a few weeks, our children, who have been riding buses safely, 
are now going to have to alter the way they get to school.
  Mr. Speaker, time is up. It's time for us to vote on the American 
Energy Act. Let's vote on it today. Let's vote on it before we go on 
our August break. Let's give the American people relief on gas prices.

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