House Proceeding 05-13-08 on May 13th, 2008 :: 0:22:59 to 0:26:14
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Speech By: Joe Barton

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Joe Barton: have as much impact as passing this bill. it would be a lot more fun, too. we would all get a little exercise and be a pretty good photo-op that the une nighted congress -- united congress, dictating

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Joe Barton: that oil price goes down. but it would have about the same impact that this bill does. mr. speaker, again i don't karl with the fact -- quarrel with the fact that we are directing to suspend

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Joe Barton: shipments of the strategic petroleum reserve. we need to do a lot more than that, however, if we really want to bring oil prices down. and even in doing something on the s.p.r., i think we should

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Joe Barton: go through committee. we should have a legislative hearing. we should have a markup. and we should really rethink the strategy of the strategic petroleum reserve. in the 1970's the oil markets

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Joe Barton: and the u.s. economy were significantly different than they are today. the size of the reserve, the uses of the reserve are at least subject to a real debate today. what we are getting is a

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Joe Barton: bill that apparently was drafted in majority leader hoyer's office late last night or early this morning that several members have put their names on and we are on a suspension calendar

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Peter Welch: that we have no ability to amend it or do anything about it except vote yes or no. so i'm going to encourage members to vote no. if we were somehow to get 146 no votes, then we could have the

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Speech By: Peter Welch

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Peter Welch: debate and have the markup process that i have asked about and we could come back and next week some time and do it the right way. with that, mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to put my

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Peter Welch: formal remarks into the record and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempe: without objection, so ordered. the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from

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Peter Welch: michigan is recognized. mr. dingell: i ask unanimous consent at this time that the ntleman from vermont, mr. welch, be permitted to control the remainder of the time on this side. the speaker

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Peter Welch: pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. welch: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. first i want to thank chairman dingell for his leadership on energy issues and for

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Peter Welch: assisting and bringing this legislation to the floor for consideration by the full house. i want to answer a couple of questions -- observations by my friend from texas. number one, the revenues

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Peter Welch: that would be generated from drilling on federal lands would go into the treasury. and there are many uses and debates that can be had about whether that money ultimately should go into

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Peter Welch: alternative energy. whether it should go into liheap. those will be had in due course as part of other legislation. the question that we have before us today is whether or not taking a small

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Peter Welch: step that in the past has been taken by this president bush, by his father, by president clinton that when it has been taken has proven to actually have a direct and immediate impact on