Lynn A. Westmoreland: “I was elected to Congress 4 years ago, and I came up here and you really think you are going to be dealing with some…”

“I was elected to Congress 4 years ago, and I came up here and you really think you are going to be dealing with some smart people. It took all I could muster up just to graduate from high school. I did attend college for 2 years. But I have come up here and I have found out that evidently a lot of people in this body don't understand either business or the economy or economics or something, because I keep hearing about the majority wanting to bring down gas prices, but they want to do it by raising taxes and taxing oil companies. Now, the gentleman just spoke about getting the President's help. Well, I think he has tried to help. I think he has put together some good proposals, but they don't want to do any drilling. On April 24, 2006, Speaker Pelosi put out a thing, they were trying to get into the majority, and it said: 'Democrats have a commonsense plan to help bring down skyrocketing gas prices.' And at the time, gas was probably $2 a gallon and, as the gentleman stated a while ago, it is about $3.80 now. Oil was probably $60 a barrel, and it is about $120 a barrel now.”