Political Quotes

“if I could briefly explain this motion, it attempts to, again, get us to deal directly with the enormously important issue, the real crisis that consumers across America face; that is, the high and escalating cost of energy, including gasoline at the pump. This will finally suggest to the American people that we get it, that we understand their plight, that we feel their pain, if you will, to use an often used phrase, and we are actually going to do something about it. We are going to act. This motion to instruct the conferees would show the Senate is serious about increasing energy supplies and doing that to decrease gasoline prices. The motion is very simple. It would instruct the budget conferees to include a reserve fund for future legislation that we would be expressing an intention to pass. That legislation would allow a Governor, with the concurrence of his or her State legislature, to petition for increased energy exploration on the Outer Continental Shelf off of that State. It would also allow for revenue sharing coming from such exploration and production, to give producing States a fair share on new areas of production and new leases made available.”