[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10688]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           NO NEW ENERGY TAX

  (Mr. POSEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POSEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise to echo the concerns that I have heard 
from thousands of my constituents. They tell me that Washington has 
failed to focus on economic recovery; and you know what, they are 
right. Last year, the House passed a massive national energy tax known 
as cap-and-trade, and it's similar to legislation passed in Europe in 
the 1990s. It cost Europe hundreds of thousands of jobs and made 
virtually no change or effect whatsoever on their environment. 
Estimates are that if Washington forces this bill on the American 
public, it will kill more than 2.5 million more American jobs.
  Fortunately, the national energy tax is now stalled in the Senate, 
and I sure hope it stays there. With unemployment near 10 percent, the 
last thing America needs is more job-killing legislation and more 
taxes. America does need to know that Congress is listening to them.

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