Todd Tiahrt: “the Interior approps bill will be in the full committee tomorrow and is, on balance, a very good bill. Chairman Dicks…”

“the Interior approps bill will be in the full committee tomorrow and is, on balance, a very good bill. Chairman Dicks has done a thorough job, with many hearings, and has been very fair in looking at the various elements of the bill. But it is an energy bill as well, and with gas at $4.089 as a nationwide average, and with great opportunity in the Interior bill, we have done nothing to bring down the price of gas. So, tomorrow, in the full committee, we have a series of amendments that will address the price of gasoline, and I urge all my colleagues to join in the effort to bring down the price of gas. We can do this by increasing production in ANWR, in the Outer Continental Shelf. We can start to do the permitting process for oil shale. In every case, we will increase a reliable, environmentally safe supply of oil, and bring down the price of oil for working men and women here in America. So, again, Madam Speaker, I encourage my colleagues to join with us and bring down the price of oil by increasing the supply.”