[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10890]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                 ENERGY

  (Mr. ELLISON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. ELLISON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of a progressive 
vision for America's energy future and the opportunity to create 
millions of American jobs for our working families.
  President Obama and this Congress are taking on our Nation's energy 
crisis with a plan to create green jobs and build a clean energy 
economy; a plan that creates 300,000 new jobs by implementing a 
Renewable Electricity Standard, and another 222,000 new jobs with its 
high efficiency savings provisions.
  Mr. Speaker, we have a choice to make in this Congress; we can choose 
to create millions of new American jobs that cannot be shipped 
overseas, reduce our dependence on oil from overseas, increase 
production of cleaner renewable energy sources, crack down on polluters 
who damage our air and our water quality, and give American 
entrepreneurs and innovators the tools they need to stay combative in 
the global economy, or we can do something else.
  America can become a world leader in the new clean energy economy, or 
we can continue the failed policies of the last 8 years.

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