[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12168]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  WHERE IS THE MAJORITY'S ENERGY PLAN?

  (Mr. BARRETT of South Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BARRETT of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, what is the deal? Lately 
when I've been in South Carolina, I have been talking to a lot of 
frustrated folks. And they are frustrated because they are watching 
their hard-earned paychecks burn up in their gas tanks. And I'm 
frustrated because I know there is no energy plan to help these 
families.
  Two years ago the Democrats said they would introduce a commonsense 
plan to help the energy crisis. And today, when the Americans need it 
most, when they're paying $4 a gallon for gas, there is no energy plan. 
Yet I stand here today week after week, as I am doing, asking my 
friends on the Democrat side, ``Where is the plan?'' I have only seen 
plan 1, and that has been drafted by the Republican party.
  Are my Democrat colleagues not hearing the pleas of the American 
public about high gas prices? Do they not travel to their respective 
districts and talk to their citizens? Have they not heard the public's 
frustration? Or do they choose to ignore them?
  As Members of Congress, it is our duty to solve the problem. And it 
is just not good enough to tell them, ``We have no plan.''

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