[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25685]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   DEMOCRATS COMPLAIN BUT DO NOTHING

  (Mr. BURTON of Indiana asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. You know, I get a big kick, Madam Speaker, out 
of my colleague from Virginia when he comes down and starts talking 
about that we're not for clean energy and we're not for solving the 
problems of the environment when the Democrat Party will not do 
anything to allow us to drill in the ANWR, offshore on the Continental 
Shelf, and use natural gas, which is a clean-burning fuel. They won't 
allow nuclear energy in this country. They think that the nuclear 
energy problem is bigger than the environmental problem, when 75 
percent of the energy created in France is nuclear energy in a very 
safe way.
  So I get a big kick out of my colleagues on the other side of the 
aisle complaining about how we're not for clean energy and helping 
clean up the environment when they won't do a darn thing to move in 
that direction by using natural gas, drilling for it when we have a 
400- to 500-year supply, and actually going ahead with nuclear 
development in this country. Nuclear energy is the answer. Clean-
burning natural gas is the answer, but they won't go along with it, and 
yet they come down here and complain day after day after day.

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