Debbie Dingell: “we have before us today a hastily crafted minimally reviewed bill of doubtful value and most curious circumstance. We…”

“we have before us today a hastily crafted minimally reviewed bill of doubtful value and most curious circumstance. We have had no hearings on the specific measure before us. The major changes in language in the bill were revealed late last night, I believe at 11 p.m. We have not received a single response to the questions we asked of the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency. We do not know whether the provisions in the energy bill passed less than 2 months ago to expedite refinery siting are working. We do not know what these new provisions on refinery sitings are going to do. We literally have before us a bill which is composed of scraps assembled from the waste baskets at the House Legislative Counsel, crafted together by my Republican colleagues to do something which they will have great difficulty in explaining today. There can only be one explanation for this rush to the floor, and that is the desire of the Republican leadership of the House to use the hardship of the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita to push various parts of their agenda.…”