On the recordJune 25, 2002
I rise today to urge those across the aisle to once and for all end their negative rhetoric and support a comprehensive energy plan for America's future. I understand that there are those that would have the United States continue to import almost 60 percent of our oil from many of the very same terrorist-sponsoring regimes our sons and daughters are bravely fighting today. I, however, will not. Mr. Speaker, I have an 18-year-old son; and I will do everything I can to not allow this Congress to place him and thousands of other young boys and girls in harm's way simply to appease a few extremist groups here in Washington. The President's energy plan balances the needs of our environment while recognizing that America must develop our domestic sources of energy if we are to truly be an independent nation. I urge my colleagues to support American independence through the passage of H.R. 4.
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