[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 9]
[House]
[Pages 13072-13073]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               MOST AMERICANS WANT TO DRILL IN DEEP WATER

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, the American people are opposed to the 
administration's ban on deepwater drilling. Almost three-quarters of 
American people, 73 percent, say the ban is not necessary. But in spite 
of the will of most Americans, in spite of two court rulings that say 
that the moratorium is arbitrary, capricious, and punitive, the 
administration is determined to kill jobs in the deepwater industry.
  You just can't hit the pause button on the gulf coast economy. The 
President's moratorium on drilling is destroying lives, and good people 
are being put out of work on purpose by this administration. These 
aren't statistics. These are real people, hardworking people. How do 
they pay their mortgage and buy their groceries and put gasoline in 
their car?
  On Friday, one of the world's biggest drilling companies had to move 
another deepwater rig to the Middle East and out of the Gulf of Mexico 
because of this moratorium. All of the good-paying jobs are going with 
it.
  Mr. Speaker, the moratorium on drilling is the second disaster in the

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Gulf of Mexico, and it's brought to us by this administration.
  And that's just the way it is.

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