[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19198]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           REPUBLICANS GET IT

  (Mr. BACHUS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BACHUS. Mr. Speaker, the number one cost in manufacturing is 
energy. The number one cost of job loss in America is the high cost of 
energy.
  Now, the Chinese get that. The Chinese are building 32 nuclear power 
plants.
  The country of India, they get it. Seventeen new nuclear power 
plants.
  Even Abu Dhabi and Dubai, oil rich Arab countries, United Emirates, 
they sell us their oil and they're building nuclear power plants so 
they don't have to use their oil, they can sell it to us.
  Listen, all these countries get it. The Republican bill gets it. It 
has nuclear energy. But Joe Biden, Senator Obama, they don't get it. 
The Democrats don't get it. There's no nuclear energy in their bill.
  We'll continue to lose jobs. We'll continue to have high cost of 
energy, and most importantly, we will not be able to compete with the 
world because they are building nuclear power and cheap energy while 
we're not.
  We need to vote for a real bill, not this sham.

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