Senate Proceeding on Jul 31st, 2008 :: 5:23:59 to 5:27:16
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Speech By: Richard Durbin

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Richard Durbin: mr. salazar: mad am president, i wa, nt to just make a few dmoants clarify some of the colloquy that -- comments to clarify some of the colloquy that won't and what i consider to be some of the distortions

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Ken Salazar: that were spread. first, there is a misconception i think that the minority side is trying to spread that democrats are against drilling. if you go on my state in colorado, you will find tens of thousands

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Speech By: Ken Salazar

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Ken Salazar: of natural gas wells and oil wells that are producing. if you look at the votes that we've taken in this chamber, there are manufacture us who've said we need to go and drill and we -- many of us who've

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Ken Salazar: said we need to go and and drill, whether it's in the west coast or other aas. so for them to try and put the brand that we are against the use of our conventional fuels and resource is -- is simply wrong.

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Ken Salazar: i want to comment on just two or three specific things. first, on the opening up of the outer continental shelf, it is true that the president has said he wants to lift the moratoria. it is true that

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Ken Salazar: senator mccain has said that it would have some kind of a psychological effect perhaps on the market. and the fact is that there are some of us who say we ought to at least have an inventory of what's out

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Ken Salazar: there on the o.c.s., but no matter how you cut, it no matter how you cut it, the department of energy and the energy information administration has said we're not going to be producing anything

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Ken Salazar: throughout for 7 to 10 years. and so it's not going t have an impact on gasoline now, so that really raises the question, what's the real motivation of these amendments and these agendas on the republican

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Ken Salazar: side. and it really is a stalling tactic to keep gas on the minds of people through the month of august so that they flay for their own political advantage. you know, i think the american people expect

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Ken Salazar: better of us. i think the american people expect us to come up with real solutions and not phantom solutions. and the solutions that have been proposed here are by and large fan some solutions. and

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Ken Salazar: there can be no greater fan some solution, frank willing, than what we have seen count -- frankly, than what we have seen countless times over the last two weeks, the assertion by my wonderful friends

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Ken Salazar: on the other side who have said that somehow out of this shale rock, which is shale, it's not tar, it's not sapped, it is shale, it is rock, that somehow we're going to be able to develop 2 trillion

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Ken Salazar: barrels of oil out of that rock. well, it's been tried for about a hundred years. nobody has figured it out. even the oil companies are saying they can't figure it out right now. and we, contrary

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Ken Salazar: to the assertions made by my good friend from new hampshire, opened up the opportunity for oil and gas companies to go in and to see whether the technology could be developed so we have a robust research

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Ken Salazar: and development program that's taking a look at whether or not oil shale can be commercially developed in my state of colorado, where 0% of the reserves are -- where 80% of the reserves are located.

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Ken Salazar: so i would hope that as we move forward in what is really one of the most important issues in the crucible ofur times that we look to the future to find real solutions that are so important for us

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Ken Salazar: on energy. because at the end of the day, what will drive to us that new energy wor is the importance of national security, economic opportunity here at home, and the environmental security of our

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Ken Salazar: planet. madam president, i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from michigan is recognized. a senator: thank you, madam president. ms. stabenow: thank you, madam president. a little earlier

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Debbie Stabenow: this afternoon, our leader came to the floor with colleagues and offered six different opportunities for the united states senate to bring before us bills that include responsible drilling, investments

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Speech By: Debbie Stabenow