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Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010

Date: July 15, 2009
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Energy Natural Resources


ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2010 -- (House of Representatives - July 15, 2009)

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Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Chairman, I rise in very strong support of the amendment.

We really need to move toward using natural gas. It is a clean-burning fuel, and we have a huge supply of it in this country. In fact, down in Louisiana just recently, they discovered probably one of the biggest finds of natural gas in the whole world.

As I said, it is a clean-burning fuel, and we need to transition from our dependency on foreign oil. If we continue at the pace we're heading right now, over the next 10 years, we will see a transfer of $10 trillion of our money to countries like Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, and many of those are not friends of ours. So this is a great step in the right direction.

I want to congratulate Mr. Boren on the amendment. You're doing good work.

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