[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 11974]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   DELIVER FUEL SOURCES TO THE PEOPLE

  (Mr. BISHOP of Utah asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BISHOP of Utah. Madam Speaker, gas prices have finally hit $4 a 
gallon. That's $1.71 higher than when we first met as a Congress, and 
the Speaker said she had a secret plan to lower those costs.
  Yet rather than talking about energy issues, we are talking, spending 
time to find scapegoats to blame for those costs, not realizing that 
for every dollar that goes up in energy costs, jobs are lost, income is 
reduced, our social programs are harmed and people simply suffer. We 
should be fighting for these issues, for the 1,100 people that worked 
for American Airlines but were fired because they couldn't afford the 
gas for 100 planes; for the Washington, D.C., cabbie who, for the first 
time in his life, cannot greet his kids at home when they come home 
from school because he has to work 2 hours a day longer for the same 
amount of money; for the Virginia father who can no longer attend his 
father-and-son outing because he can't afford the gas to go there.
  People are suffering, and, instead, we are here on the floor dealing 
with congressional minutia. We must be dealing with legislation to 
improve conservation, improve production and improve innovations of how 
we deliver those fuel sources to the people. Otherwise we will become, 
as John Adams said, one useless man is disgraced, two are a law firm, 
and three or more become a Congress.
  The people have had this Congress.

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