[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11037]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                 ENERGY

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, since 2006 the Democrats have been completely 
in control of Congress. The Democrat leadership continues to put a 
roadblock in the way of accessing American oil. Gas prices have doubled 
in the past year. At the station down the street from my home, gas is 
now over $4 a gallon.
  House Republicans believe in increasing production of American-made 
energy. Vast untapped American energy resources are currently under 
lock and key and off-limits. American energy resources can make our 
Nation more secure and less dependent on foreign oil.
  House Republicans believe not only in technologies like wind, solar, 
and biomass but that we ought to make use of the billions of barrels of 
oil in Alaska, off the deep waters of the Outer Continental Shelf, and 
on Federal lands. We can do this in an environmentally sensitive way. 
And we should eliminate the red tape it takes to build a new oil 
refinery.
  We should develop American-made energy.

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