Political Quotes

“One would think that if our Republican colleagues were so concerned about renewable energy, they would not have bottled up the wind energy tax credit that has been allowed to expire, languishing, stopping projects in my district that the business community, the environmental community, and farmers, frankly, who would like to harvest a little wind, would have benefited from. The months go by. It ticks off. We could have had a clean, precise, up-or-down vote on extending the wind energy tax credit if we were serious about renewables. It would have passed by 400 votes on this floor if the gentleman and the Republicans were serious about it and not bollix it up with a whole range of other items. Instead, we are given a proposal that would compromise the development of renewable energy by narrowing the scope of NEPA. It is true that we have a shell of NEPA under this proposal, but it is basically an up-or-down vote. They seek to compromise the amount of time that is used. It is part of this notion of dodging the fundamental issues, a failure to pass a comprehensive energy bill that would really help renewables; that would help energy conservation; that would provide a vigorous debate on the floor of this House on things that would be able to help move the country forward.”