[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 1791]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 NATURAL GAS OFFERING ENERGY REVOLUTION

  (Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, the Congressional Natural 
Gas Caucus has relaunched with a four-member bipartisan leadership team 
in order to expand efforts and organizational resources in the 113th 
Congress.
  Despite a fragile economic recovery, the Nation is witnessing an 
energy revolution through which energy resource development is offering 
economic growth, new jobs, and lower energy costs. America's newly 
found ability to access expansive reserves of natural gas is a large 
part of this new domestic resource base, which has afforded new 
opportunities for America's manufacturing sector based on the 
comparative advantages of lower energy costs and for American families 
as they heat their homes at a fraction of the cost.
  Despite these new fortunes, there are countless policy challenges 
that must be leveraged for the Nation to continue benefiting from this 
abundant, clean, low-cost energy source.
  The mission of the Congressional Natural Gas Caucus is to educate 
Members of Congress and the public about the importance of natural gas 
as a domestic energy resource and its role in meeting the Nation's 
energy demand and in attaining energy security.
  I, along with my fellow cochairs--Representative Gene Green from 
Texas, Representative Tom Reed from New York, and Representative Jim 
Costa from California--encourage Members to join us in this effort 
today.

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