[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 7995]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      WE NEED TO STOP THE WHINING

  (Mr. WESTMORELAND asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WESTMORELAND. Mr. Speaker, it's interesting to come down here and 
to listen to the majority party, the Democrats, talk about a new change 
in direction for our energy policy or something new to do about our 
troops.
  News flash: Y'all are in charge. You've got 230-plus votes. You're in 
charge. You can pass anything you want to.
  Mr. Speaker, we need to stop the whining. Since they took over in 
2007, with a new energy policy, H.R. 6, our gasoline has gone up about 
$1.50 a gallon.
  So here's what I want everybody to do, Mr. Speaker. I want you to go 
home tonight and I want you to go to Home Depot and I want you to buy 
some energy saving bulbs because, in their energy bill, light bulbs are 
mentioned 350 times, where gasoline was mentioned 6, crude oil was 
mentioned 12. I want you to go home, I want you to take those energy 
saving light bulbs, I want you to put them in, and then I want you to 
drive to the gas station and see if gas has come down, because that's 
the way their plan is supposed to work.
  You're in charge. If you're in charge, lead. Mr. Speaker, we need 
some leadership here. We need to do something to help the American 
people at the gas pump with these outrageous gasoline prices and crude 
oil fixing to go to $150-plus a barrel. Do something.

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