[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 21801]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               CLEAR ACT

  (Mr. SMITH of Nebraska asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SMITH of Nebraska. Madam Speaker, the Natural Resources Committee 
has the responsibility not only to take steps to encourage more 
nuclear, solar, hydropower, and wind energy but also to increase the 
production of domestic oil and gas. Such an all-of-the-above approach 
will lead to lower energy costs and to more jobs for American citizens 
while also serving to make our country safer.
  Later today, the Natural Resources Committee will be holding a 
hearing on H.R. 3534, a bill which will simply erect more obstacles to 
job creation and energy production. This bill creates new levels of 
bureaucracy, which inevitably will slow new development of American 
sources of energy. Now is not the time to further delay the advancement 
of American energy.
  Madam Speaker, it is simple: more roadblocks to energy development 
mean less energy for Americans.

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