[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6885]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               OIL SHOCK

  (Mr. WESTMORELAND asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WESTMORELAND. I want to read an editorial to the American people, 
Mr. Speaker, that was printed yesterday in Investors Business Daily:
  ``Oil Shock.
  ``When it comes to energy policy, Democrats always talk a good game. 
But look at their actual record while in control of Congress in the 
last year and a half. It's been nothing short of disastrous.
  ``Wasn't it 2 years ago that then Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi vowed, 
if the party took over Congress, to cut energy prices, especially 
gasoline?
  `` `Democrats have a commonsense plan,' Ms. Pelosi went on to say, 
`to help bring down skyrocketing gas prices by cracking down on price 
gouging, rolling back the billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies, 
tax breaks and royalty relief given to the big oil and gas companies, 
and increasing production of alternative fuels.'
  ``This is what Ms. Pelosi wrote in April of 2006 as part of her 
efforts to convince the American people to elect Democrats.
  ``How's that working for you? The cost of energy, measured by the 
price of West Texas Intermediate Crude is up more than 70 percent.''
  On 12/19/07 President Bush signed into law H.R. 6, which was the 
plan. It's not working.
  We want to see the real plan, Ms. Pelosi.

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