[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12638]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              CONGRESS MUST INCREASE DOMESTIC OIL SUPPLIES

  (Ms. GINNY BROWN-WAITE of Florida asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. GINNY BROWN-WAITE of Florida. Madam Speaker, I rise today to 
share the absolute disgust that my constituents have with the inability 
of this majority to do anything about rising gas prices.
  Today, I received this letter from a constituent in Wesley Chapel. 
His name is Benjamin, and he's more than ready to drill for oil and 
natural gas here in the United States and certainly off the coast of 
Florida. His message is, ``It's Time to Drill Our Own Oil Now!'' And 
that's very clear.
  But in case you don't get the message, he was also kind enough to 
include a drill bit in his envelope so that we might start drilling 
right away.
  Madam Speaker, if Benjamin gets the need for increased domestic 
production, why doesn't this Congress?
  We need to promote efforts to drill in ANWR, drill in the non-
protected areas of the Outer Continental Shelf, support new refineries, 
and promote nuclear power.
  Instead, the Democrat majority wants to raise your gas tax by as much 
as 50 cents gallon, as the chairman of the Energy and Commerce 
Committee recently suggested.
  Madam Speaker, we need to listen to Benjamin and to other 
constituents who don't want our taxes raised.

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