[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11221]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     JUDGE OVERRULES ADMINISTRATION

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, real people in the gulf region are 
affected by the hasty overreaction by the Federal Government to shut 
down deepwater drilling for 6 months in the Gulf of Mexico. The 
Obamatorium will bankrupt businesses and put thousands of people in the 
gulf region out of work.
  The Feds are in an apparent violation of the law which requires 
affected parties to be consulted before regulators dictate new 
regulations. Affected parties would be the oil industries that are shut 
down and the people of the Gulf States.
  So these people have sued the Federal Government and asked a Federal 
judge to impose an injunction against the Federal Government's 
unscientific drilling ban. And in just the last hour, a U.S. district 
judge has ruled the administration was wrong in illegally summarily 
stopping deepwater drilling. It is unfortunate the administration has 
to be sued by the people of this country to keep it from destroying 
American jobs.
  And that's just the way it is.

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