Angie Craig: “Mayday, Mayday, Mayday--do you hear me calling? Do you hear the frustration of the American consumer today who goes to…”

“Mayday, Mayday, Mayday--do you hear me calling? Do you hear the frustration of the American consumer today who goes to the gas pump and pays record-high gas prices? I saw prices in my State of Idaho today verging on an alltime high--$3.32, $3.35, depending how far you are from the head of the pipeline. Mayday, America. Mayday. I do believe that is what the American consumer is saying today--help me. And to the Congress of the United States and to this Senate, that sound ought to be echoing through this Chamber and certainly through the halls and the committee rooms that deal with national energy policy. We are where we are today for absence of policy and for some policy that has driven us to less production and becoming increasingly more reliant upon someone else to produce our energy for us. It is in that context of a Mayday appeal that I speak for a few moments during this noon hour.”