House Proceeding 05-13-08 on May 13th, 2008 :: 0:07:38 to 0:20:00
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John Abney Culberson: the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman ice time has expire. the gentleman from texas is fr recognized. >> thank you. i'd like t o address the house for one minute and revise and extend my

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Speech By: John Abney Culberson

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John Abney Culberson: remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. >> it is approximately 2:10 p.m. on the east coast, and the speaker announced she's going to drop on the floor a $250 billion spending bill.

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John Abney Culberson: it's always been the policy this house that the party labels end at the water's edge. ed it's always been the policy of the house that members are able to debate in committee on something as important

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John Abney Culberson: as fight wampling in a war against the barbarians from the dark ages the minority has been shut out. it's unacceptable for the speaker of the house and the chairman of the appropriations

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John Abney Culberson: committee to be the only two people in this institution allowed to see the bill. no one has seen the bill. all 300 million americans have been shut out of this appropriations process to fund our

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John Abney Culberson: soldiers. to ensure their protection and survival in the field. to ensure the survival of this nation, entire houmpts needs to be involved and the country needs to know that this speaker is

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Susan Collins: running this house like the supreme soviet -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. though house shall now move to suspensions. before the by is the first suspension.

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Speech By: Susan Collins

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Susan Collins: purr soont to clause eight of rule 20 the house will postpone further proceedings today on motions to suspend the rules on which the recorded vote or on which the vote is objected to under

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Susan Collins: clause six of rule 20. record votes on postponed questions will be taken after 6:30 p.m. today. the speaker pro tempore: the chair lays before the house a message from the president. the

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Susan Collins: clerk: to the congress of the united states, i am pleased to transmit to the congress sur puent sections 123 and 123-d of the atomic energy act of 1954 as amended 42 u.s.c. 215 3d the act, the text

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Susan Collins: of the agreement between the government of the united states of america and the government oof the russian federation in the cooperation in the field of peaceful uses for nuclear energy.

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Susan Collins: i am also pleased to transmit my authorization concerning the agreement and a nuclear proliferation assessment statement, npas, concerning the agreement. the proposed agreement has been negotiated

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Susan Collins: in accordance with the act and other applicable law. in my judgment, it meets all applicable statutory requirements and will advance a nonproliferation and other foreign policy interests of the

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Susan Collins: united states. the proposed agreement provides a comprehensive framework for peaceful nuclear cooperation with russia based on a mutual commitment to commue neu clear nonproliferation.

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Susan Collins: it has a term of 30 years and permits the transfer of technology, material, equipment, and components for nuclear research and nuclear power production. it does not permit transfers of restricted

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Susan Collins: data and permits transfers of sensitive nuclear technology, sensitive nuclear facilities and major critical components of such facilities by amendment to the agreement in the event of termination, key

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Susan Collins: nonproliferation commitments and control continue with control subject to the commitment. i have considered the views on recommendations of the interested agencies in reviewing the proposed agreement

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Susan Collins: and determined that its performance will promote and not constitute an unreasonable risk to the common defense and security. accordingly i have approved the agreement and authorized its ex-caution under

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Susan Collins: a the congress give a favorable consideration this transmission shall constitute a submital for proposals of both sections 123-b and 123-d of the atomic energy act. my administration is prepared

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Susan Collins: to begin immediately the consultations with the senate foreign relations committee and house foreign affairs committee as provided in section 123-b. upon completion of the 30-day continuous session

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Susan Collins: period provide for in section 123-b, the 60-day continuous section period provided in section 123-d shall commence. signed george w. bush, the white house, may 12, 2008. the speaker pro tempore:

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refer to the committee on foreign affairs and ordered printed. for what purse does the gentleman from michigan rise? >> mr. speaker, i move to suspend the rules and pass the bill h.r. 6022. the

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speaker pro tempore: clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: h.r. 6022, a bill to suspend the acquisition of petroleum for the strategic petroleum reserve and for other purposes. the

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John D. Dingell: speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from michigan, mr. dingell and the gentleman from texas, mr. barton, will each control 20 minutes, the chair recognizes the gentleman

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Speech By: John D. Dingell

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John D. Dingell: from michigan. . mr. dingell: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and to include extraneous material on the bill

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John D. Dingell: under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. dingell: mr. speaker, i yield myself two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two

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John D. Dingell: minutes. mr. dingell: as you know i have long opposed -- long supported the filling of the strategic petroleum reserve and strongly support the energy policy act of 2005. and the provisions there

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John D. Dingell: that direct the secretary of energy to fill the reserve as expeditiously as practicable to one billion barrel capacity authorized by the energy policy and conservation act. the energy policy act

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John D. Dingell: of 2005, however, also requires the secretary to time acquisitions in a manner that does not incur excessive costs or do not appreciably affect the consumer price of petroleum products. on may 8 i wrote

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the president urging him to direct the secretary of energy not to enter into any new contracts to fill spro during the calendar year 2008. this regrettably is what the department of energy

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is proposed to do under april 4 solicitation for oil to be delivered between august and december this year. in light of the record cost of oil and the resulting hardship for average americans, businesses,

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John D. Dingell: farmers, and general economy i believe it would be a prudent for d.o.e. to take these barrels off the market. while there is no guarantee that putting this oil on to the market rather than into

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John D. Dingell: spro will lower prices, even such a modest step could potentially prick the speculative bubble now characterizing oil markets. in 2006, d.o.e. suspended spilling -- spilling spro during the summer

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John D. Dingell: driving season, that is what is appropriate to do now. while it is in the discretion of d.o.e. whether or not to enter into a new contract at this time, the administration seems determined

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John D. Dingell: to forge ahead. common sense would say to us not to take the oil off the market at a time of record high prices. given the administration's apparent determination to pursue this course, the congress

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John D. Dingell: must act and i support this bill. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from texas, for what purpose does

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John D. Dingell: the gentleman from texas rise? mr. barton: i rise in opposition to the bill. recognize myself for such time i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. barton: mr. speaker,

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John D. Dingell: let me say at the beginning that i speak for myself. i don't necessarily speak for the house republican leadersp. i have asked if we had a minority position on the bill and as of 30 minutes

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Joe Barton: ago we did not. so i am speaking for myself as the ranking member of the committee of jurisdiction, the energy and commerce committee. let me say at the beginning that i think it is good to have a

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Speech By: Joe Barton

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Joe Barton: piece of energy legislation on the floor at this point in time. i think the american people are fed up with high gasoline prices. they are fed up with increasing imports. they are fed up with rising

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Joe Barton: food prices that are caused at least in part by higher energy prices. so i think it's a good thing that we are beginning to debate energy legislation on the floor of the house of representatives.

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Joe Barton: i think it is a good thing that the chairman of the committee with primary jurisdiction, my good friend, john dingell, is leading that debate on the majority side. having said that, i don't think

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Joe Barton: it's a good thing that we bring a bill on the strategic petroleum reserve to the floor with no process at all. chairman dingell and subcommittee chairman boucher and i have spoken envelopely

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Joe Barton: in the last two weeks about -- informally in the last two weeks about doing something on the strategic petroleum reserve and i am very open to having a full vetting of the issue of the strategic

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Joe Barton: petroleum reserve. i'm fully supportive of the underlying policy in this bill which is to suspend the taking shipments into the strategic petroleum reserve when oil prices are at record levels.

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Joe Barton: i am not supportive of doing that in a way that there's absolutelyo input from the minority side. we have had no legislative hearing, no committee hearing, no markup, no nothing. we were notified

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Joe Barton: late yesterday afternoon that the bill would be on the floor this morning and as far as i can tell, the bill wasn't printed until some time this morning. one reason i'm opposed to the bill is

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Joe Barton: because of process. now i want to talk about the substance of the bill. again the strategic petroleum reserve was created in the 1970's in response to a coordinated arab oil embargo against

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Joe Barton: the united states of america when shipments of oil were suspended by the opec cartel for political reasons. we created the strategic petroleum reserve and my guess is, although i wasn't in congress

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Joe Barton: at that time, that john diell, who was a member of the committee, i don't believe he was chairman in the 1970's, probably had a very positive influence on creating the strategic petroleum reserve.

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Joe Barton: it was a good idea then and it's a good idea now. so that's a good thing. we have been filling the strategic petroleum reserve since the late 1970's. most of the oil was put in under president

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Joe Barton: reagan's tenure from 1980 to 1988. but even since then we have continued to fill the reserve. there have been little appropriated funds appropriated to fill it. and in the last five or six years

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Joe Barton: most of the increase has been by taking what this bill would suspend, which is the royalty in kind oil, and put that into the reserve. royalty in kind oil is oil that instead of the oil