[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19200]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                     DEMOCRAT ENERGY BILL IS RIGGED

  (Mr. BOEHNER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. BOEHNER. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the announcement from the 
Chair that additional Members will be allowed to give 1-minutes. In 
fact, it was announced earlier that there would be unlimited 1-minutes, 
then it was announced that we would only have 30 1-minutes on each 
side. And I appreciate the announcement that we will have at least 20 
more because our Members want to speak, and I will tell you why.
  When a bill gets filed at 9:45 the night before and then it's 
announced it's going to come to the floor the next morning as the first 
bill up, a bill that no one has read, written in the dark of night, 
that won't do a damn thing about American energy. Enough is enough.
  The Speaker of the House said this will be the most open and ethical 
Congress in history, that we would consider things in a fair and open 
way. And this is not going to be considered in a fair and open way. It 
shows up in the middle of the night, nobody's read the bill, and guess 
what? The Republican Members, who represent about 48 percent of the 
American people, we're not allowed to offer a substitute. We have no 
opportunity to offer our American Energy Plan that we've been on this 
floor talking about for 3 months nonstop. We don't even get a chance to 
offer the bill.
  It's rigged, and the bill that's coming to the floor is nothing more 
than a hoax on the American people, and they will not buy it.

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