[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11057]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




        AN AMERICAN CLEAN ENERGY ECONOMY AND ENERGY INDEPENDENCE

  (Mr. PERLMUTTER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. PERLMUTTER. Madam Speaker, for decades, Washington has ignored 
the energy crisis imperiling our economy, our national security, and 
our planet. Now President Obama is committed to a comprehensive energy 
plan that will generate millions of clean energy jobs, break our 
dependence on foreign oil, and reduce the threat of deadly pollution.
  With the depletion of the world's oil reserves and the growing 
disruption of our climate, the development of clean, renewable energy 
sources is the growth industry of the 21st century. President Obama 
says that our economic future demands we must lead the competition for 
clean energy. The President's energy policy will jump-start the 
creation of an American clean energy sector that will create millions 
of energy jobs.
  His policy will break us from our dependence upon foreign oil and 
begin making America energy independent, and it will stop the pollution 
that we have going into our atmosphere. It is time to take a new tack 
on energy.

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