[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12167]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           SOARING GAS PRICES

  (Mr. BOEHNER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. BOEHNER. Mr. Speaker, this quote from Daniel Webster appears 
above the Speaker's rostrum right up at the top of the Chamber. And it 
says this: ``Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its 
powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests and 
see whether we also in our day and generation may not perform something 
worthy to be remembered.''
  As families struggle with soaring gas prices, our Nation's energy 
solutions, I think, lie on Webster's words. House Republicans have 
offered a plan to lower gas prices by developing the resources of our 
land in an environmentally safe way. This is an approach that is 
supported by some 60 percent of the American people in a recent Gallup 
poll. But the majority won't listen.
  Instead, they let gas prices surge even higher by refusing to 
schedule a plan to break America's dependence on foreign sources of 
energy. Mr. Speaker, I think American consumers deserve better. It is 
time to develop the resources of our land and bring down gas prices on 
behalf of American families and small businesses. And that, as Webster 
said, would be ``worthy to be remembered.''

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