[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11456]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




  THE PRICE OF GASOLINE: CONGRESS MUST TAKE ACTION TO LOWER GAS PRICES

  (Mrs. BLACKBURN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Speaker, traveling through my district in west 
and middle Tennessee this past week, gasoline and the price at the pump 
are what everybody is talking about. Busy moms in Tennessee are now 
spending about $240 to fill the minivan up every month. That's about 
$100 more than it was when the Democrats took control of the gavels in 
both the Senate and the House.
  Well, the Congress must stop talking and they must take action so 
that we can solve this problem.
  Government has been and continues to be a roadblock when it comes to 
lowering gas prices. Republicans want to incentivize efficiency and 
innovation. We want to incentivize and promote production of American 
energy resources for an American solution to this problem. We want to 
incentivize ingenuity. We are innovators. We can solve this problem 
when we put our best minds to it.
  And there are some concrete steps that we could and should take now, 
things that we have supported, like repealing and delaying the ethanol 
mandates; taking advantage of our natural resources, western shale, 
ANWR.
  Mr. Speaker, families are calling out for relief. Let's take action.

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