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




 REPUBLICAN LEADERS OPPOSE OUR EFFORTS TO LOWER RECORD HIGH GAS PRICES 
                              AT THE PUMP

  (Mr. WALZ of Minnesota asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. WALZ of Minnesota. Mr. Speaker, the American people do continue 
to face record high gas prices, and this Democratic Congress has acted 
and will continue to act on legislation, commonsense legislation, that 
will reduce the price at the pump. Only now we need to get the support 
of President Bush and our friends on the Republican side of the aisle 
who seem content on pursuing the same failed policies that got us here 
in the first place.
  Over the last couple of months, this House has passed 9 bills that 
would lower gas prices. While we received a little bit of bipartisan 
support, the majority of our friends on the Republican side have 
opposed those 8 bills.
  House Republicans said ``no'' to legislation that would enable the 
Justice Department to take legal action against foreign nations 
manipulating the price of oil. House Republicans said ``no'' to 
legislation that would give the Federal Trade Commission the authority 
to investigate and punish those who are artificially inflating the 
price of gas.
  Mr. Speaker, our friends on the Republican side of the aisle need to 
realize that saying ``no'' is not an energy policy.

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