[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3484]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                CREATE JOBS BY PRODUCING AMERICAN ENERGY

  (Ms. FOXX asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, with gas prices going through the roof, it is 
time to ask the question: Is this administration's energy policy 
working? After all, gas price haves soared by 30 percent over the past 
year.
  We can help protect ourselves from these sky-high prices and create 
jobs by actively producing American-made energy. That's why I support 
an all-of-the-above energy policy that includes more American-produced 
energy, like oil and nuclear, along with alternatives like wind and 
solar. This will lower prices and create good American jobs while 
reducing our dependence on foreign oil.
  Unfortunately, the Obama administration doesn't seem to get this. Its 
de facto drilling moratorium in the gulf has already cost 12,000 jobs 
and 300,000 barrels a day of energy production.
  Mr. Speaker, we need to increase production, not decrease it, or 
American families are going to be stuck with ridiculous gas prices that 
line the pockets of unsavory regimes in the Middle East.

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