[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12335]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         THE NEW ENERGY ECONOMY

  (Mr. PERLMUTTER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. PERLMUTTER. Mr. Speaker, it's nice to see a Speaker from Colorado 
in the chair.
  I want to respond to my friend from Illinois who just spoke about the 
loss of thousands of jobs in the coal industry.
  The purpose of our bill is to move forward into a new energy economy, 
and there will be opportunities for those in the coal industry, but we 
have to find ways to capture the pollution that is set off by the coal. 
And so there are thousands of jobs in the technology and research of 
how we can use a cheap and plentiful resource like coal, but we need to 
burn coal so it doesn't continue to pollute the atmosphere.
  We also need to use renewable energy wherever we can, and we need to 
be efficient in how we use our energy.
  That's the new energy economy, and there will be thousands and 
thousands of jobs in that economy. It's good for national security, 
it's good for the climate, and it's good for jobs. We must do it now.

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