[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14099]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     RACE TO GROW CLEAN ENERGY JOBS

  (Mr. INSLEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. INSLEE. Madam Speaker, we are involved in a race today. It's a 
race to grow clean energy jobs, and we are in a race with the rest of 
the world and particularly China.
  China recently announced they will be investing over $750 billion 
over the next 10 years to grow clean energy jobs in China. They have 
announced they are going to put a cap on carbon so that they can create 
demand for the creation of new, clean energy jobs.
  What are we doing in this country? Unfortunately, the other Chamber, 
the U.S. Senate, has dropped the ball and isn't moving a ball to create 
a demand for these new clean energy jobs with a cap on carbon.
  We can lose this race if we don't get off the dime and get into this 
race. But I want to assure folks we are going to get into this race one 
way or another and one way is with the Environmental Protection Agency 
creating a limitation on carbon so we can create the demands for these 
clean energy jobs so we can make clean energy electric cars in this 
country and sell them into China.
  For those people who are going to object to the EPA regulation of 
carbon, you had your chance and you can't be heard to squawk. We are 
going to move forward on clean energy jobs.

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