Wendy Sherman: “I came to this floor last night with intensity, as any of us would…”

On the recordMay 22, 2001

I came to this floor last night with intensity, as any of us would have intensity if we were living through what California is and soon will be living through. What was missed was I was here chiefly to support a bill submitted by the gentleman from California (Mr. Hunter), from the San Diego area, one of the more conservative Members on the other side of the aisle. This is a bipartisan Hunter-Eshoo bill. We need it passed only for one reason, and that is the repeated pleas of our Governor and our entire State government to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission have been ignored. We have asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, look, since we are prohibited by Federal law from imposing reasonable costs-plus- profit regulation on what is being charged at the wholesale level, they, as is required by law, should do it. FERC has closed their eyes to what is happening, and we in California have been FERCed.

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Wendy Sherman

Democratic · District of Columbia

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Addressing the need for federal energy regulation in California during a floor speech.

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Wendy Sherman: “I came to this floor last night with intensity, as any of us would have intensity if we were living through what…”

Editor's note · Context