Political Quotes

“To my friend Richard Neal, I understand the frustrations of this debate and some of the processes, but this gives us a chance to come down to the floor and just talk about the basic policy of: Is a carbon tax good, or is it not good? I can't speak to the process. All I can talk about is the policy. Congressman Doggett was down here talking about national security issues. I deal with this quite a bit in my role as the chair of the Baltic Caucus and doing some NATO Parliamentary Assembly things. Let me just speak briefly about a concern of what a carbon tax does in international energy fights and disbursements. Here I hold a picture--and I wanted to get it on the chart, but I wasn't able to--of an LNG terminal called Independence. Now, this terminal is in Lithuania, and they are able to decrease their reliance on Russian natural gas because they have built this import terminal. {time} 1000 They are able to now have two folks in which to import natural gas, thus relieving themselves of being extorted by the Russian Federation. A carbon tax would increase the cost of our exported goods to countries like Lithuania, making them more susceptible to energy extortion by the Russian Federation. So in an international debate of an energy policy which the Russian Federation does extort--how do I know this? I know this because, in the early days of the reestablishment of freedom, a U.S. company bought a refinery in Lithuania. The SPEAKER pro tempore.…”