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




                      INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS BILL

  (Mr. TIAHRT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TIAHRT. Madam Speaker, the Interior approps bill will be in the 
full committee tomorrow and is, on balance, a very good bill. Chairman 
Dicks has done a thorough job, with many hearings, and has been very 
fair in looking at the various elements of the bill.
  But it is an energy bill as well, and with gas at $4.089 as a 
nationwide average, and with great opportunity in the Interior bill, we 
have done nothing to bring down the price of gas.
  So, tomorrow, in the full committee, we have a series of amendments 
that will address the price of gasoline, and I urge all my colleagues 
to join in the effort to bring down the price of gas.
  We can do this by increasing production in ANWR, in the Outer 
Continental Shelf. We can start to do the permitting process for oil 
shale. In every case, we will increase a reliable, environmentally safe 
supply of oil, and bring down the price of oil for working men and 
women here in America.
  So, again, Madam Speaker, I encourage my colleagues to join with us 
and bring down the price of oil by increasing the supply.

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