[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5116]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   DRILLING FOR BRAZIL BUT NOT FOR US

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, the President says that he wants to 
cut the country's oil imports by one-third over the next 10 years. 
Well, that's fantastic and well-timed for the announcement of his 
reelection campaign yesterday. But let's face reality. Gasoline is up 
to $4 a gallon. Americans don't want to hear about what's going to 
happen 10 years from now.
  The President's answer to the energy crisis and $4 gasoline is to 
give money to Brazil while at the same time stonewalling drilling in 
our gulf. Why are we doing that?
  Instead of propping up energy companies in Brazil and letting them 
drill off their coast, let's keep jobs and money in America and drill 
off of our coasts and on our land. Let's develop our own domestic 
energy instead of developing Brazil's.
  Are you in for that, Mr. President?
  And that's just the way it is.

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