Ed Markey: “I think people have to understand that part of the Contract with…”

On the recordMarch 30, 2000

I think people have to understand that part of the Contract with America is the pledge to abolish the Department of Energy. So the Department of Energy, in 1995, 1996, 1997, they were just fighting to exist, not to put together an energy policy that would make us independent of OPEC. Here we sit on the day before the President's authority expires, and we still have not produced a bill out here that we can vote on that can give him that authority to continue to keep that leverage strong against OPEC.

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Ed Markey

Democratic · Massachusetts

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Discussing the implications of the Contract with America on energy policy.

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Ed Markey: “I think people have to understand that part of the Contract with America is the pledge to abolish the Department of…”

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