Bart Stupak

I think the policymakers need to know the facts.

In response to the last speaker, this bill does not target mom-and-pop grocery stores. You have to sell half a billion dollars of gasoline products. Secondly, the record high prices of oil that we are seeing was not under Jimmy Carter. It…

All this amendment is saying is that the U.S. and Canada must work together to prevent harmful discharges into the Great Lakes. My amendment will allow the EPA to offer solutions to notice, protocol and information sharing between our two…

Democrats on this side, we will support the bill. It does create some accountability at the Department of Homeland Security. It will provide the cities and counties with guidance and standards 5 years after 9/11. But the real critical need…

If we had hearings and witnesses, we could bring out the differences between the bills, but since we have been denied it, I have to use this tactic to get the record straight on the floor.

The gentlewoman is wrong on our legislation. My legislation, the FREE Act, applies to everything. It was your legislation that only dealt with national emergencies.

As to meat and fish, as the gentleman knows, the FDA just issued their rule not even 3 weeks ago, 4 weeks ago, and they did it without any independent studies. They just said they just reviewed it, no study, no research, no nothing. So…

Shall transmit the plan to Congress for establishment and operation of the strategic refinery reserve,'' lines 11 and 12. Again, he will submit his plan, whoever the Secretary is. They may have a different idea, but they must submit it to…

They would operate around the clock. Mr. Chairman, if you look on page 18 on how it would be implemented, it is starting on line 9, we have the implementation plan, and it must be established within 2 years and how they are going to do it…

It is just like the Strategic Petroleum Reserve; it is up to the Secretary to approve it. Would the Federal Government and Federal employees operate it? No. Much like we did in the energy bill for nuclear. Let us put it up and build it…

In answer to the gentleman's last question, if you look at page 4, we have rulemaking in there, where the FTC shall promulgate the rules necessary and appropriate to enforce. Under the rulemaking process, you, myself, just about all of us…

Then the President, much like the manager's bill, and much like excessive, and the gentleman's bill has the same language basically because you copied our bill, so you can go outside the area. The President has the authority to go outside…