[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 17230]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  CLEAN ENERGY TECHNOLOGY CREATES JOBS

  (Mr. HALL of New York asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HALL of New York. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to talk about how 
clean energy technology is creating jobs in my district and why we need 
the Senate to follow our lead and pass the American Clean Energy 
Security bill to create even more jobs in the Hudson Valley and 
throughout the country.
  Mercury Solar in my district started 3 years ago with five employees 
and now employs 60 people, expecting to have 80 by year's end.
  Spectra Watt, a solar cell manufacturer, will be employing 150 people 
in their new Dutchess County facility by next year.
  Business is growing by leaps and bounds because of the market created 
by New York's renewable energy requirements, because of the Federal tax 
incentives that we passed here in Congress and because of the economic 
stimulus package. But more needs to be done, and that's why we need the 
Waxman-Markey bill, the Energy and Jobs bill, to be passed by the 
Senate.
  It is time to invest in our future for America to reclaim first place 
in the field of energy technology and to create the middle class jobs 
of the 21st century.
  I urge the Senate to quickly pass the Waxman-Markey Energy and Jobs 
bill.

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