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




                      PEOPLE NEED HELP IN AMERICA

  (Mr. GOHMERT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GOHMERT. Mr. Speaker, I just came back from a weekend of being 
with my constituents that were hit by a hurricane. They don't care 
about Republican or Democrat, and they cannot find a generator that's a 
hybrid generator. They need help.
  And when I went and was dealing with sheriffs that were trying to get 
help for their people in the middle of the night, one of them said, You 
know I'm a Democrat. I said, You know I don't care.
  People need help in America, and this bill that's been put on the 
floor will provide none of the above. The litigation has stopped 68 
million acres from being drilled, and now once we find that out, we 
find out that's their ace in the hole to keep this bill from producing 
anything.
  People want hope. People need gasoline. They need diesel. They don't 
need a joke that is turned into a mean, mean, hurtful bill.

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