[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11008]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           POLITICAL HYSTERIA

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Madam Speaker, the administration's knee-jerk 
banning of deepwater drilling for 6 months is the second disaster in 
the gulf.
  The government is intentionally putting companies out of business in 
the gulf with this unscientific moratorium. There are 50,000 workers 
who are losing their jobs due to government overreaction. The 
administration is not only purposely putting blue collar workers out of 
work; the government is sending those jobs to Brazil and to Indonesia.
  In 2005, there was a BP refinery explosion in Texas City, Texas. 
Fifteen people were killed; 180 were injured. The government did not 
close all of the refineries for 6 months in the United States to 
investigate the sins of BP then. That would have been foolish nonsense. 
It would have destroyed jobs, the economy, and it would have caused the 
loss of U.S. energy.
  So investigate the rig explosion and hold BP accountable for their 
conduct, but don't in a moment of political hysteria stop deepwater 
drilling. Don't wipe out jobs, American companies, and sabotage the 
U.S. economy.
  And that's just the way it is.

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