[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 14360]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                 ENERGY

  (Mr. ELLISON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ELLISON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to talk about the importance 
of building a clean energy economy for America. Americans are fed up 
with the same tax breaks for oil companies that post record profits 
while working families are stuck paying exorbitant prices at the pump. 
Americans want a new energy economy, a green economy, to take us into 
the future, to take us into a carbon-neutral economy, to take us into 
jobs, to take us into a future in which we are not dependent upon the 
automobile for every transportational decision.
  The time has come to transform our economy for decades to come. The 
time has come to create American jobs with new, clean, American-made 
energy. The clean energy jobs plan is the next step in creating 
millions of American jobs in clean energy, efficiency, and modernizing 
a smart electric grid. We can reduce our dependence on costly oil, curb 
pollution, and create jobs. We can do this. Yes, we can.

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