On the recordSeptember 28, 2000
Unfortunately, Madam Speaker, something happened last night in conference that will force me to oppose this rule and oppose it very strongly. Despite the fact that many people in the Northeast are currently facing what promises to be the worst heating crisis, winter heating crisis in two decades, some of my colleagues have decided to eliminate the funding in this conference report for Northeast home heating oil reserve. Madam Speaker, I do not know why my colleagues would want to take steps to avoid helping their neighbors, but I do know how bad the situation could be in Massachusetts. According to today's Boston Globe, the Energy Information Administration announced yesterday that the stocks of heating oil shrank by another 300,000 barrels over the last week, and what that means, Madam Speaker, is that New England has less than one-third of the supply of heating oil that it had last year.
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govinfo.gov
