[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 18]
[House]
[Page 23753]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         A CLEAN ENERGY ECONOMY

  (Mr. INSLEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. INSLEE. Mr. Speaker, while we consider what we can really do to 
reduce unemployment, I think we ought to consider something Secretary 
Steven Chu, the Secretary of Energy, said yesterday. He told us that 
China will surpass or possibly has surpassed the United States, not in 
the ability to do low-wage manufacturing but to do high-technology 
manufacturing, unless we adopt an energy policy which will jump-start a 
clean energy economy for the United States and start bringing those 
high-tech manufacturing jobs home to the United States.
  First Solar, a United States company using United States technology, 
will be building the largest solar plant but building it in China with 
manufacturing there. Applied Materials, a high-tech manufacturing 
company, an American company, is developing plants in China.
  What Mr. Chu told us, Secretary Chu, is that we need to adopt the 
clean energy bill now pending in the Senate. This is the ticket out of 
this recession. This is how we're going to decrease unemployment. We 
urge the Senate to get moving on this bill.

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