[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11351]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             ENERGY REFORM

  (Mr. YARMUTH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I understand the Republican party's love 
affair with fossil fuels. After all, the fossil industry has dominated 
the direction of energy policy in this country for the last generation, 
but the American people know that our future is not with fossil fuels, 
that it is not with oil and that it is not with coal. It is with 
alternative and renewable energy. They know also that this is the way 
we will help create new jobs in the economy.
  In a recent poll, almost 70 percent of the people said they thought 
an emphasis on alternative renewable fuels, just like we have done in 
our ACES Act, will create jobs for the American economy--in one 
estimate, up to 2 million jobs. In my own district, General Electric is 
bringing back 800 jobs to build energy-efficient appliances--400 of 
them coming back from China.
  Energy reform is a job creator. The American people know it. I hope 
the Republican Party will join us in bringing the energy situation in 
this country into the 21st century and will join us in creating new 
jobs for a new American economy.

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