[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13121]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          NATIONAL ENERGY TAX

  (Mr. PENCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. PENCE. As we stand in Congress this evening, legislation on 
climate change continues to move through this body. As more Americans 
are realizing every day, the cap-and-trade legislation is nothing more 
than a national energy tax that will raise the energy costs on every 
American household by thousands of dollars a year. It will hit the 
Midwest, low-income Americans and Americans on fixed incomes the 
hardest.
  The President, himself, said more than a year ago that, if his cap-
and-trade proposal became law, utility rates would, in his words now, 
``necessarily skyrocket.'' Millions of Americans are catching on.
  Next week, House Republicans will go from coast to coast in this 
country with energy summits, taking our case against this national 
energy tax to the four corners of this Nation. I look forward to 
engaging the American people. During these tough economic times, the 
last thing we should do is raise the burden and the cost of energy on 
every working family in this Nation.
  Let's say ``no'' to a national energy tax and say ``no'' to cap-and-
trade.

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