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Energy

Floor Speech

By: Jim Himes
By: Jim Himes
Date: March 31, 2009
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Energy Natural Resources

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Mr. HIMES. Mr. Speaker, I rise this afternoon for 1 minute, 60 seconds, during which this great Nation will send $200,000 abroad to pay for foreign oil, each of those dollars hard earned in one of our factories, small businesses, or offices.

My colleagues, we have failed to act on energy for far too long, we, who represent a Nation who has always taken the hard choices and done the right thing to invest in our future.

Much is said in this House about our children. Now the eyes of those children are on us, and they have one question, and that question is: When all the work, when all the world, and when all of us stood waiting for you to do the right thing to act on our behalf, to change the way we use and get energy, did you act? Did you act for us, or did you just kick the can down the road one more time?

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