Senate Proceeding on Jul 31st, 2008 :: 4:14:30 to 4:19:01
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4:14:17 to 4:14:30( Edit History Discussion )

Jon Kyl: gas companies. federal land leased to them for oil and gas exploration. you would think from the position and statements on theon republican side of the aisle there was no land available and this we have to

4:14:30 to 4:14:44( Edit History Discussion )

Richard Durbin: find new opportunities for oil and gas companies. they have 68 million opportunities they're not using today. time and time again over the last several weeks the position of the republicans on the energy

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Speech By: Richard Durbin

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Richard Durbin: question has come down to two or three very basic things. first, the republicans in the senate and senator john mccain are stuck on old ideas. secondly, they can't wait to go hat in hand to big

4:14:55 to 4:15:06( Edit History Discussion )

Richard Durbin: oil, the oil companies and ask them, what would you like us to do next? well, oilt companies have a pretty good -- the oil companies have a pretty good agenda. before president bush and vice president

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Richard Durbin: cheney leave town contribution you try to find some way to provide even more acreage, federal acreage that we can drill on maybe in the future? we want to stock it in our portfolios and get back to

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Richard Durbin: it another day. can you make sure you do that before president bush leaves town, that's the republican agenda.| more acreage beyond the 68 million they currently have and no vision for the future.

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Richard Durbin: it's an old agenda, an old idea. the grand old party is stuck in an old way of thinking when it comes to energy. the bill that i'm about to talk about looks to the future. it's a vision for tomorrow.

4:15:44 to 4:15:57( Edit History Discussion )

Richard Durbin: of course there's responsible exploration and production. there has to be and there should be. but it realizes that the energy future of america and the world has to be different. we have to get ahead

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Richard Durbin: of the curve. as senator reid said in quoting thomas freed friedman, it's time for us to think about the energy revolution that we're about to engage in, one that's going to make a profound difference

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Richard Durbin: in our lives. twice this week we have given the republicans a chance to vote for a real energy package. is it a bipartisan plan? read this quote from 48 governors, democrats and republicans across the

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Richard Durbin: united states . "securing our energy future must be a priority at both the state and federal levels. we strongly urge you," speaking to the congress, "to partner with states by passing legislation

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Richard Durbin: on a bipartisan basis to extend expiring renewable energy and energy efficiency tax credits that can be enacted this year." the governors understand it. the american people understand it. the democrats

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Richard Durbin: in the senate understand it. it's only the republican senators who continue to object. what are these incentives? they're incentives for renewable energy that will really chart a course for america

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Richard Durbin: to find clean energy sources and the creation of new businesses and new jobs so that america can again lead the world. the republicans look in the rear view mirror at drilling for oil because that's

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Richard Durbin: where the big oil companies are. their friends, their allies, their inspiration when it comes to energy. this bill that came up before us yesterday brought in five republican votes. only five. out of

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Richard Durbin: 49 would cross the aisle and join us to try to pass it. not enough. they know it. coincidentally, four out of five are in tough reelection contests. they understand when they go home they can't sell this

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Richard Durbin: drill forever mentality that the republicans in the senate have been peddling here. it talks about incentives for biomass and hydropower, solar energy, biodiesel, advanced coal, electricity demonstration,

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Richard Durbin: plug-in electric cars, battery performance standards, idle reduction units for trucks, so many other things that move us forward using those nonpolluting renewable forces of energy that are truly our

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Richard Durbin: future. time and time and time again the republicans in the senate have said "no," no to these incentives for renewable energy, "no" to our future. i'll give them a chance this time. i'm going to ask

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Richard Durbin: unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of calendar 767, h. r. 6049, the renewable energy job creation act of 200. that the amendment at the desk, the text of which is s.

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Richard Durbin: 3335, be considered and agreed to, the bill as amended be read a third time, passed and the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table, that any statements relating thereto appear at the appropriate

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Richard Durbin: place in the record as if read. the presiding officer: is there objection? mr. kyl: mr. president? the presiding officer: the republican whip. mr. kyl: mr. president, reserving the right to object. i ask

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Richard Durbin: that the consent be modified that stead of adopting s. 3335 as an amendment, the senate adopt the mcconnell-grassley substitute this is filed at the desk. this substitute provides the a.m.t. patch,

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Jon Kyl: extends all of the traditional tax extenders, some of them with modifications, it extends the many energy tax incentives, provides for midwest disaster relief, and includes no tax increases. the