[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19195]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




  DEMOCRAT INACTION ON FAILING TO ADOPT A COMPREHENSIVE ENERGY POLICY

  (Mr. LATTA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. LATTA. Mr. Speaker, the Democrat inaction on failing to adopt a 
comprehensive energy policy has come home to roost. We see this 
happened in the last hurricane. We have over 20 percent of our oil 
being produced in the gulf, and these oil rigs being shut down, and the 
refineries being shut down.
  Americans are suffering. We have to diversify. Once again, when you 
look at the energy proposals here, we have to be up in ANWR. There's 
10.3 billion barrels of oil up there that we need to be drilling. We 
have got to get that oil down here.
  We have to make sure that there is natural gas, make sure that people 
can heat their homes this winter. We have to make sure that the folks 
that are out there driving trucks or tractors have diesel. We have to 
have that to make sure we keep our energy prices down and our food 
prices down.
  But the time to act is now. We have to have a comprehensive energy 
plan. The Republicans have put forward all of the above. All of the 
above is to make sure that we have nuclear, clean coal technology, 
hydro. We have to make sure that we drill, that we make sure that we 
have all of the alternatives out there, but we have to do it now. If we 
don't get it done now, the rest the world will pass us by. Next year 
China is becoming the number one manufacturing country in the world.
  It's time to act right now.

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