William Tauzin: “Mr. Speaker, after a very long and important debate, the American people will finally, finally get a comprehensive…”

“Mr. Speaker, after a very long and important debate, the American people will finally, finally get a comprehensive energy policy worthy of the challenges that they face. Everyone on both sides of the aisle and both sides of the Capitol deserves to be commended for the tireless work that they have put into these last several weeks and, actually, the last 2 years. The gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Tauzin) has done an outstanding job. We owe an incredible debt to the gentleman from Louisiana and the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Barton), my friend from Texas, who has worked extremely hard. We appreciate the Senators that have worked on this too. And certainly the staff, all these people have worked to finish this bill, and they have worked to give rise to the occasion and produce a creative, intelligent and comprehensive policy for the American people. The bill addresses a host of issues without losing sight of America's basic need for new, independent, and reliable sources of energy to support our information age economy.”