[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6283]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              WE NEED CAPABILITY TO CREATE OUR NEW ENERGY

  (Mr. WAMP asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WAMP. Madam Speaker, the nexus between national security, energy, 
and the environment is one of the most important issues of our time. 
And on energy, I'm an all-of-the-above Republican. It is wise to 
conserve, and we need to promote conservation. It is wise to advance 
energy efficiency technologies. We need to invest. But new capacity, 
new energy sources are also sorely lacking. We need new national gas 
supplies in this country. We need refinery capacity. We need our own 
oil, albeit limited. But we've got to, number one, grow our capability 
to create energy in our country to be energy independent.
  I want to talk about nuclear energy because the cars of the future 
are going to run off of lithium batteries, some form of electric. We've 
got to have new capacity. We need nuclear energy in this country to be 
self-sufficient even on transportation. If we're going to reduce our 
carbon footprint, don't leave nuclear off the table.
  This is a time to come together for new energy technologies, to 
promote an in-tech agenda, to actually balance the budget again with a 
robust manufacturing economy. It's pro-American.

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