[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 13025]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   CONVOLUTED NATIONAL ENERGY POLICY

  (Mr. CONAWAY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CONAWAY. Madam Speaker, my previous colleague is a friend from 
Washington, but he really doesn't get it either.
  When you have a convoluted national energy policy that the Democrats 
are putting forward, they meet themselves coming and going. On the one 
hand we have had speaker after speaker stand here today and tell us we 
can't drill our way out of it. Yet earlier this month we passed a bill 
that allows American citizens to sue OPEC to force them to produce more 
oil and gas.
  The only way for them to produce more oil and gas is to drill more 
oil and gas. On the one hand they say production won't affect supply, 
and on the other hand they want to sue OPEC to force OPEC to produce 
more oil and gas so that we can buy it, from folks who are, at best, 
not our enemies.
  This is wrongheaded on every level. I expect the OPEC companies today 
are working on legislation to allow their citizens to sue America to 
force America to produce her energy.
  We can do better than this. We can quit talking past each other and 
make this thing work if we just do it.

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