[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 18424]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       GIVE US A GOOD ENERGY BILL

  (Mr. BURTON of Indiana asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, during the August recess, I think 
a lot of my colleagues got the message from their constituents that 
they want an energy bill, they want energy independence, and they want 
us to start working on that right now.
  I talked to some of my Democrat colleagues today, and I had an 
indication from them that we might have an energy bill next week. All I 
wanted to say to the leadership on the Democrat side is, Give us an 
energy bill that we can really support. Please don't give us a facade. 
Don't give us the frosting on the cake without the cake. We want an 
energy bill that will move us toward energy independence that will 
allow us to work and get energy from a whole host of sources, as well 
as the alternative sources that we're talking about in the new 
technologies.
  Give us a good energy bill. Don't give us a piece of junk that we 
can't vote for.

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