I have come to this floor every evening this week to try to eliminate and dispel some of the misinformation about what is going on in California and the West and how we got into this situation. I want to take some time to describe the situation and to describe that some of the insults hurled at the State of California are manifestly not only malicious but false. What is the situation in California? In 1999, in the year 2000, and again this year, California will use virtually the exact same amount of electricity. In fact, in the year 2000, during the key peak hours, we used less electricity than we did in the prior year.
Wendy Sherman: “I have come to this floor every evening this week to try to eliminate and dispel some of the misinformation about what…”
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Addressing the energy crisis affecting California and neighboring states.
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