[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19192]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          DO-NOTHING CONGRESS

  (Ms. FOXX asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, this is indeed the do-nothing Congress. The 
Speaker of the House and the majority leader in 2006 made many, many 
promises. Among them was to bring down the price of gasoline, to have 
the most open Congress in the history of the Congress, to have the most 
bipartisan Congress. Every single one of those promises has been 
broken, and broken many, many times.
  It is important that the American public understand that the 
Democrats are in charge of this Congress. The Democrats have the 
capability of bringing up a bill to allow us to vote to bring down the 
price of gasoline. But the bill they are going to bring up today is 
bogus, a sham, an illusion, a charade. All of those words that have 
been used are appropriate.
  The Democrats are proving that they are anti-American energy. 
Republicans are pro-American energy. Republicans want to increase the 
supply. We want to increase our efforts at conservation. We want to 
increase alternatives.
  The Democrats are totally out of touch with the American people. From 
August 1 until the end of December, they plan to work 14 days for the 
American public.

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