House Proceeding 05-21-08 on May 21st, 2008 :: 3:41:35 to 3:44:34
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back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from louisiana. mr. mccrery: mr. speaker, i yield two minutes to the distinguished gentleman from indiana, mr.

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Dan Burton: burton. the speaker pro tethmpore: the gentleman from indiana is recognized for two minutes. mr. burton: thank you, mr. speaker. i thank the gentleman for yielding. you know, i listen to my good

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Speech By: Dan Burton

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Dan Burton: friend, charlie rangel, the chairman of the ways and means from new york, he was talking about all these areas where we will get additional energy. there was some great ideas there. the

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Dan Burton: problem is many of them are going to take a long, long time before we get the job done. right now people in this country are paying close to $4 a gallon for gasoline, and the issue is we have a

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Dan Burton: supply of oil in this country that will take care of most of the problem. we can drill in the anwr and get a million or two million barrels of oil a day. that's 3 1/2 times the size of texas, alaska

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Dan Burton: is, and we can't do it because they say it's environmentally dangerous. we can drill off the continental shelf and get a million to two million barrels a day. they won't allow us to drill off

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Dan Burton: the continental shelf. yet, cuba will drill within 50 miles from the united states and give the oil to china. they're using all these environmentally questionable issues to keep us from drilling

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Dan Burton: for oil in this country to be energy independent. we've been talking about energy independence for 30, 40 years and we haven't done a darn thing about it. and the speaker said not long ago, about

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Dan Burton: two years ago, that we were going to do something about skyrocketing gas prices when it was $2.33 gallon. now it's approaching $4 a gallon and we can't even drill for oil that's in our country to

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Dan Burton: reduce the cost of gasoline. . the american people want solutions. they want democrats and republicans to come together to do what's necessary to help them with their energy problems. they want us

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Dan Burton: to work together. we need to have some balance between environmental concerns and the cost that we need to deal with regarding this economy. and that means we need to lower the price of energy,

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Dan Burton: especially gasoline, so people can get to and from work and deal with the problems they face on a daily basis. there's no question about that. gasoline should not be $4 a gallon and we can lower

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Dan Burton: it if we drill for oil in our country. can i get 30 seconds? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. mccrery: i yield an additional 30 seconds. the speaker pro tempore: the

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Dan Burton: gentleman from yane is recognized for an additional 30 seconds. mr. burton: while we are talking about the long-term problems of energy and dealing with new technologies we are all for, we have

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Dan Burton: to deal with the immediate problem. the immediate problem is drill for oil in this contry. build for refineries so we can get that oil to market and lower the gas prices like the americans

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Dan Burton: want it to be lowered back down to around $2 a gallon or less. and we can d it. but we'll never do it unless we work together, democrats and republicans. all i hear from the other side of

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Dan Burton: the aisle is no. we have to worry about the environment. there has to be a balance between environment and economic concerns and we are not doing it. the speaker pr o tempore: the gentleman's

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Dan Burton: time has elexpired. the ge ntleman from washington state. mr. mcdermott: mr. speaker, i take so much time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. mcdermott:

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Jim McDermott: today we are going to approve a plan that will produce a significant new energy resource for the american people. we passed this bill four times. mr. brady is right. there's nothing new here. we

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Speech By: Jim McDermott