[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11349]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               PROMOTING SAFE AMERICAN ENERGY PRODUCTION

  (Mr. BOUSTANY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BOUSTANY. Mr. Speaker, I rise to applaud the Federal District 
Court ruling yesterday overturning the administration's job-killing 
moratorium on American energy production in the deep water of the Gulf 
of Mexico. This moratorium on drilling will ship thousands of good-
paying jobs overseas. It will also make us more dependent on foreign 
oil. And finally, it's contrary to and in fact distorts the 
recommendations by a panel of independent scientists and engineers that 
the administration put together. It distorts their whole view that this 
industry-wide moratorium will in fact hurt safety by pushing the most 
experienced workers overseas and actually shipping all of our most 
advanced drilling rig technology overseas. It will hurt safety.
  I urge the administration to back down from this ill-conceived, job-
killing, arbitrary moratorium on American energy production.

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