Pete Domenici: “We are grateful. We will have a unanimous consent to take care of today. Let me just say briefly, if I were President of…”

“We are grateful. We will have a unanimous consent to take care of today. Let me just say briefly, if I were President of the United States-- which obviously is beyond the realm of possibility--I would be opposed to this amendment. It is not as if it does nothing to the President. It says, Mr. President, whoever you are--and it obviously will not be this one--tell us how, give us a plan, tell us how you will reduce America's consumption of crude oil by 40 percent by a year certain. What President would like to do that? What President would think that is a worthwhile effort if he would have to send up some kind of plan at which the whole world would laugh? Our cars would have to be the size of golf carts or we would have to make a breakthrough in the next 10 years, which we have been working on for 40 or 50 years, and we have not made it yet. The very ones talking about it do not want to even get the oil from ANWR. That is a million of what they are asking for, and it surely would be here by the time their resolution talks about it. What if the President, whoever it is, says: Let's go to ANWR and get a million. Guess what they would say: Destroying the world, getting rid of the environment. But a nice little resolution, nice little bill saying we have a solution to this. We will just be a John F.…”