[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13166]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        CAP-AND-TAX ENERGY PLAN

  (Mr. TIM MURPHY of Pennsylvania asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. TIM MURPHY of Pennsylvania. A cap-and-tax energy bill is working 
its way through the House. Democrats and Republicans alike want to make 
sure that we put caps on emissions to reduce pollution in our country, 
but we need to make sure we find a way of doing this without increasing 
family electric bills, losing manufacturing jobs, or losing steel jobs.
  They say we should trust China that they won't cheat and somehow send 
cheaper goods over here. But this is the same country that sends us 
fungus in their diapers, leaded toys, toxic baby bottles, poison dog 
food, harmful building materials; they dump steel on our shores, hack 
into our computers, and spy on us. Hardly a country I would trust.
  They say that we're going to get 200 tons of steel to build a 
windmill, and that's true, but it takes 90 tons of steel to build a 
clean coal power plant. What we ought to be doing is spending our money 
tearing down our old dirty coal plants, building new ones, and using 
our massive resources.
  Let's use the oil off our shores to fund clean coal technology, build 
nuclear power plants, get a million more jobs in America, and clean the 
air in our country. Put a cap on emissions, okay. But let's put a cap 
on job losses. That's how we help our country.

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