[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 13]
[House]
[Pages 17492-17493]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                   THE ELITIST VIEW OF CAP-AND-TRADE

  (Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California asked and was given permission 
to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California. Mr. Speaker, we voted on cap-
and-trade, or cap-and-tax, here in this House; and a lot of people are 
wondering what the American people think about it, what does the rest 
of the country think about it, and what does the world think about it. 
Well, the votes are in from the elitists. We've just heard from Great 
Britain's Prince Charles who tells us unless the rest of the world 
follows us, we only have 96 months until basically the end of this 
planet. He says, We ought to stop this idea of consumerism, and we've 
got to stop the little people from being able to advance themselves. 
Oh, only the elites. Then there is Vice President Gore; and he, 
appearing across the pond, said, The passage of cap-and-trade is the 
best step towards global governance that we've ever seen.
  So you may wonder what the people in Detroit think. You may wonder 
what the people out of work in my district think. But we know what the 
elites think, Thank God for cap-and-

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trade so we can keep the little people where they belong. They don't 
deserve any advancement in the economy. But let the princes of the 
world continue lecturing the rest of us.

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