Barbara Boxer: “the reason I waited for 2 hours this morning to speak today is to send a warning to my colleagues. Read what you are…”

“the reason I waited for 2 hours this morning to speak today is to send a warning to my colleagues. Read what you are about to do. I find it incredible that instead of continuing on the present path--which is to amend the electricity title in a way that would make it better, in ways that would protect the American people from the type of scam we witnessed in the west coast, which in my State alone cost us about $9 billion, if not more, and which is responsible for about a third of the problems we are facing financially in my State--instead of fixing that electricity title, what do we have? We have an amendment filed stopping our ability to make any changes to it, and which, by the way, eviscerates all of the 21 amendments we have worked so hard on during the 8 days we have been on this bill, including amendments by Republicans and Democrats alike, dealing with biomass, LIHEAP, oil independence, clean coal, hydrogen, and so on. Even the 21 amendments we worked so hard on have been left out of this bill which is now pending, and if we go to it, those 21 amendments will be gone. I also hope that leadership is working now to straighten out where we are. We are in chaos, in my opinion, right now. When the majority leader says we need an Energy bill, I want to say we need a good Energy bill. The last thing we need is a bad Energy bill. Let's look at this bill.…”