House Proceeding on Jul 24th, 2008 :: 2:00:10 to 2:02:27
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Peter Welch: to drill, not going to put any more supply in, and prices will simply continue to rise. madam speaker, somebody will have to face up to the day of reckoning and that day of reckoning is

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Edward J. Markey: going to be when american consumers, in the dead of winter are not only paying high prices at the pump, but also high prices to heat their home. we're trying to do something today. we've

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Speech By: Edward J. Markey

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Edward J. Markey: been trying to do something for 18 months. than new democrat majority refuses, refuses to see the facts of the case. we reserve the balance of our ou time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman

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Edward J. Markey: from texas reserves his time, the gentleman from vermont. mr. welch: i yield two minutes to the gentleman from new york a man who serves on the select committee, mr. hall. the speaker

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Edward J. Markey: pro tempore: the t gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. hall: i just would like to say to my friend across the aisle, i as a member of ithe democratic majority consider the repeated

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Edward J. Markey: deliberate use of the phrase democrat majority to be a pejorative use that's not certainly what we call ourselves, and we could call you the republic minority, but we don't system of in the

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Edward J. Markey: interest of bipartisanship and comity , i would suggest democratic majority is the normal term to use. i congratulate you on accepting and adopting most of the parts of your plan from our plan. the

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Edward J. Markey: renewable energy and conservation components, which by the way the vice president sneered at in 2002, i think it was, when he said that conservation may be a personal virtue, but it is no

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Edward J. Markey: way to build a national energy policy. we have been working in this congress in the last year and a half to pass the first increase in fuel mileage standards in 32 years to provide record billions

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Edward J. Markey: of dollars to alternative fuels, research, and cooperate, record billions of dollars to carbon se quest ration, we can -- sequesteration, we have been trying and i myself say that your friend, your

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Edward J. Markey: colleague in the republican party in the other body, senator domenici could use a litt le talking, perhaps from you to get him to drop his resistance to the renewable energy standard

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Edward J. Markey: and the extension of the renewable tax credits which we have been fighting for on this side and have been stymied in the senate by a small number of republicans holding that up. but allow me

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Pete Sessions: to go to what i was going say, which is that in new york this morning, gas prices are over $42357b9 and in some cases $4.50 and have been this high for week. these high prices are squeezing