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The American People Cannot Afford to Wait For an All-of-the-Above Energy Strategy

Floor Speech

Date: Sept. 9, 2008
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Energy Natural Resources


THE AMERICAN PEOPLE CANNOT AFFORD TO WAIT FOR AN ALL-OF-THE-ABOVE ENERGY STRATEGY -- (House of Representatives - September 09, 2008)

(Mr. McCOTTER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute.)

Mr. McCOTTER. Mr. Speaker, in August the high price of energy helped cost 84,000 Americans their jobs; 39,000 auto manufacturing jobs in the State of Michigan alone were reported lost.

The response of this Democratic Congress was to take a 5-week paid vacation at taxpayer expense without doing anything on the price of energy.

What we have asked for repeatedly in this Chamber, and even through the recess by taking to the floor, is for an all-of-the-above energy strategy that includes maximum American energy production, commonsense conservation, and free market green innovations. It is time for a vote on this commonsense bipartisan proposal. The American people cannot afford to wait.

Instead, we see a Speaker who had time to write a book now coming to us finding time to write a new energy proposal unilaterally.

All we ask for is a vote on existing legislation. Again, Mr. Speaker, the American people cannot afford to wait.


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