[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10251]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       WINDMILL OF WILLFUL WASTE

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, Secretary Clinton is giving away $2 
billion of taxpayer money for green energy development in third-world 
countries. This isn't money for vaccines. This isn't money for clean 
water. This isn't money to help child hunger. This is money for green 
energy.
  Don't we need to make sure that people have electricity before we 
worry about what kind of light bulb they are using? People are 
starving, being ransacked by terrorists, taken away as child soldiers, 
and dying of preventible diseases like diarrhea. So our government 
decided the best use of taxpayer money was to put billions in those 
countries for green energy.
  Our government wasted millions of taxpayer dollars on phony loans for 
green energy right here in the United States to companies like 
Solyndra. Congress didn't even approve this $2 billion giveaway.
  With all the problems of debt in the United States and disease in 
other countries, government is providing subsidies for green energy. 
Who would have thought? The government is out of control. More taxpayer 
money thrown into the windmill of willful waste.
  And that's just the way it is.

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