[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13395]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             GOING FORWARD

  (Mr. INSLEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. INSLEE. Mr. Speaker, one thing good about our country, we always 
go forward, not backwards. And we are not going to go backwards to 
allow the privatization of Social Security. We are not going to go 
backwards to allow the removal of important protections against Wall 
Street, abuses of the U.S. economy. We're going to go forward.
  And we're not going to go backward on environmental protection. I'll 
say why this is important. This morning we were doing our investigation 
of the BP oil spill. We had President Bush's Secretary of the Interior, 
Gail Norton, testify. And you know what we discovered?
  During the Bush administration's rapid ramp-up of offshore drilling, 
they learned that 50 percent of the blow-out preventers that were 
supposed to be the fail-safe system to prevent these massive oil 
spills, 50 percent of them didn't work. But they refused to do anything 
about it.
  They learned that they had a problem with their own investigators, 
that the wells weren't being cemented appropriately, but they refused 
to do anything about it.
  We are not going to let folks go backwards on Social Security, go 
backwards on Wall Street reform, or go backwards on environmental 
protection. This is a country that goes forward.

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