[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19203]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




          THE REPUBLICANS DON'T WANT TO FIX THE ENERGY PROBLEM

  (Mr. OLVER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. OLVER. Mr. Speaker, our Republican colleagues are saying that 
H.R. 6899, the Comprehensive Energy Policy Act that this House will 
debate and pass later today, is a sham.
  Let me remind them, H.R. 6899 contains essentially the same drilling 
language they demanded a vote on in June and July. Yet, they will vote 
against it today just as they did in June and July when they voted 
against requiring drilling in the already leased National Petroleum 
Reserve in Alaska, against cracking down on speculation, and against 
releasing a small portion of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
  The truth is, they don't want to even begin to fix the problem. They 
only want to distract public attention from eight disastrous years of 
the Bush administration.
  A failing economy, a failing foreign policy, a clearly failed energy 
policy, and no new ideas.

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