[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 7282]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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              INFRASTRUCTURE JOBS AND ENERGY INDEPENDENCE

  (Mr. MEEHAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. MEEHAN. Madam Speaker, I rise today to speak on behalf of the 
Infrastructure Jobs and Energy Independence Act, a bill that was 
introduced by a number of my colleagues in a bipartisan fashion just 
yesterday to deal with the issue of energy and our ability to make it 
available to Americans in an affordable and efficient capacity.
  What it will do is take dollars that we can use by investing in the 
ability to take the resources from the Outer Continental Shelf leases 
and put those $2 to $3 trillion worth of assets to work by dedicating 
them to rebuilding our infrastructure, focusing on our ability to find 
renewable and clean energy resources, and to put those dollars as well 
towards cleaning up our environment.
  It's a bipartisan effort that gives an ability to hold down the long-
term costs of energy. It's a tremendous opportunity for us to get ahold 
of this. I look forward to working with my colleagues in Congress and 
making this law.

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