[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8907]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              {time}  1930
                         LET'S LOWER GAS PRICES

  (Mr. McHENRY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. McHENRY. Madam Speaker, tonight we had a bipartisan vote to 
suspend deposits in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. It's a great 
bipartisan vote. I join with my Democrat colleagues in supporting this 
legislation. The reason why it works is because it decreases the amount 
of consumption of oil here in the United States, thereby bringing 
prices down because it's the control of supply and demand.
  Well, likewise, I would ask my Democrat colleagues to join with me in 
increasing domestic production and refining capacity here in the United 
States, which is another way to bring prices down for our consumers. We 
can do this in a bipartisan way.
  Madam Speaker, I ask that we join together in a bipartisan vote so we 
can lower gas prices for the short term and for the long term.

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