[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16063]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




           CAP THE TAXACRATS AND TRADE THEM FOR OFFSHORE RIGS

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Madam Speaker, this country has lost nearly 3 
million jobs just this year. That's over a million more than the 2 
million men, women, and children, including illegals living within the 
fourth largest city in the United States, namely, Houston, Texas.
  We are still buying oil from dictators who don't like us because the 
enviro-elites are dead set on their none-of-the-above energy plan. No 
oil, no gasoline, no oil shale, no clean coal, no nuclear, no drilling, 
and that means no natural gas. Just what do they expect to use to power 
the Nation's cities and industry?
  The taxacrats' plan is simple: tax energy consumption. And because of 
these new taxes and higher energy costs, even more jobs are at risk.
  According to the National Black Chamber of Commerce, the national 
energy tax will cost another 2.5 million jobs in America. America 
cannot afford any more of this change. The cap-and-trade bill will cost 
jobs, raise taxes, raise the cost of energy, and, according to the 
Congressional Budget Office, won't even significantly help the climate.
  The bill is bad for everybody except the enviro-elites who get more 
government control over the rest of us. What we need to do is cap the 
taxacrats and trade them for some offshore rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.
  And that's just the way it is.

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