[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9150]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                 ENERGY

  (Mr. HIMES asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. HIMES. Mr. Speaker, I rise this afternoon for 1 minute, 60 
seconds, during which this great Nation will send $200,000 abroad to 
pay for foreign oil, each of those dollars hard earned in one of our 
factories, small businesses, or offices.
  My colleagues, we have failed to act on energy for far too long, we, 
who represent a Nation who has always taken the hard choices and done 
the right thing to invest in our future.
  Much is said in this House about our children. Now the eyes of those 
children are on us, and they have one question, and that question is: 
When all the work, when all the world, and when all of us stood waiting 
for you to do the right thing to act on our behalf, to change the way 
we use and get energy, did you act? Did you act for us, or did you just 
kick the can down the road one more time?

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