[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11679]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    WE NEED A CLEAN ENERGY STRATEGY

  (Mr. INSLEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. INSLEE. Madam Speaker, as we search for a bipartisan solution to 
our fiscal short-term and long-term issues, I don't think we should be 
unmindful of what is really happening in the real world. In the real 
world, there are two things: One, we have a jobs crisis; and, two, we 
have Americans sweltering from coast to coast with unprecedented heat. 
And these things are connected, because if we adopt a clean energy 
strategy to develop clean energy sources, we can prevent our climate 
from continuing to change, which left unabated will leave New York City 
with three times the number of days with over 95 degree temperatures in 
the next several decades.
  We need to have an energy policy that will invest in those clean 
energy jobs. And as we look for this bipartisan solution, let's not cut 
off our energy research, which is going to be successful building a new 
clean energy strategy for this country and building millions of new 
clean energy jobs and, by the way, keep us down to a climate that's 
habitable.

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