Angie Craig: “We are now involved in a national energy policy debate that will run through the balance of next week. I thank to…”

“We are now involved in a national energy policy debate that will run through the balance of next week. I thank to Senator Domenici... one of the true problems in our country today is the failure to keep our energy production levels up with the demands of a growing economy. Largely through the decade of the 1990s, we lived off the surpluses we had generated by increased capacity being built in the decades of the 1960s and 1970s and 1980s. But that surplus ran out in the late 1990s. We began to see the blackouts and the brownouts in California. We began to see energy prices increase.”