Madeleine Bordallo: “In closing, I want to say, as Mr. Welch stated, ANWR, everybody keeps talking about ANWR. But if you opened ANWR today…”

“In closing, I want to say, as Mr. Welch stated, ANWR, everybody keeps talking about ANWR. But if you opened ANWR today, you would not get any energy production tomorrow. You wouldn't get any for a decade or more. Whereas right now, the oil companies have 68 million acres of land available for development, and they are not exploiting them. I don't care how much rhetoric goes on here today, there is still the 68 billion acres of land available for development. They have access to enough acreage to produce six times the amount of energy that we might get from ANWR. So again, I'll repeat over and over, 'use it or lose it.' I urge support for House Resolution 1247.”