[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3952]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               GAS PRICES

  (Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Speaker, soaring gas prices are 
impacting Americans all over the country. With gas costing nearly $4 a 
gallon, drivers are having to rethink how they get around. With 
families and businesses tightening their budgets, rising gas prices are 
exactly what they don't need exactly when they don't need it.
  That's why I am calling on the IRS to increase the gas mileage 
deduction, like it did in 2005 and 2008, to ease the pain at the pump 
for taxpayers. Taxpayers want, need and deserve this fair, simple and 
commonsense solution: for us to tap America's homegrown energy 
resources right here, right now.
  Call the White House. The number is 202-456-1414. Tell them to get 
with it.

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