[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6282]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




     MR. PRESIDENT, REAL PEOPLE NEED YOUR HELP TO REDUCE OIL PRICES

  (Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut. Madam Speaker, let's talk about what this 
House has done already without any participation from our Republican 
colleagues or from the President of the United States.
  We've passed legislation cracking down on those who would take 
advantage of this situation by price gouging with little to no 
participation from the other side of the aisle and a President's 
threatened veto. We've passed legislation cracking down on the 
multinational oil cartels who would fix prices at much damage to 
American consumers without little to any help from the other side of 
the aisle and a threatened Presidential veto. And we've passed 
legislation rescinding the billions in tax giveaways that the prior 
Congress gave to the oil companies and turned them around to give them 
to tax benefits for homeowners and businesses who want to invest in 
renewable energy without any help from the other side of the aisle and 
with the President threatening a veto.
  Madam Speaker, people are hurting, real people, not oil company 
executives, and we need both sides of the aisle and the President of 
the United States working to fix it.

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