energy prices, specifically natural gas prices, in the United States have reached drastically high levels and are devastating our agricultural sector. Maintaining abundant supplies of natural gas and other various forms of energy are…

I offer amendments, and I ask unanimous consent that they be considered en bloc. The Clerk read as follows: Amendments offered by Mr. Peterson of Pennsylvania: Page 53, line 12, insert ``oil'' after ``offshore''. Page 53, line 20, strike…

for the first 2 years I served in Congress, I was fortunate to serve on this committee; and I will have to honestly say I miss that opportunity because I really did enjoy it. The future of America depends on the work of this committee. I…

I think I am on a different bill than I just heard described here. I applaud the energy efficiency and conservation in this bill. I applaud the increasing of renewable technologies in this bill. I applaud the hydrogen fuel cell program in…

I rise to oppose the Chabot-Andrews roadless amendment. Thirteen million acres of the Tongass is off limits to roads; 13 million acres. And 330,000 acres are available to forest repractices, and now we are trying to lock that up. I hear…

I rise tonight to ask the question, How long can America afford to not have an energy policy in place? For many years we had cheap energy in this country. We had oil for over a decade at about $10 a barrel and natural gas around $2 a…

Mr. Speaker, let us put some competition into the marketplace. We just have a proposal now that says we will have a government-subsidized program, and we all know where that will take us. The taxpayers will pay and pay. Here is the…

I have had young people and other people who were opposed but most of the young people who come in my office support drug testing. They would like to see that down pressure on their friends who are struggling with the decision-making…

I recently visited a prison in my district, a Federal prison; and 80 percent of those there were addicted to a drug. I believe the figure was 60 percent were there because they were selling drugs. That is a huge figure, $35,000 per person…

I rise to urge everyone if you want forests to be healthy and be managed, to support this bill. I have heard stated here that we have mismanaged, that the Forest Service and other agencies cannot manage forests under the current law. It is…

I want to congratulate those that have worked on this very complicated bill. I was pleased this morning to receive from the Governor of Pennsylvania, Governor Rendell, an endorsement of this plan. Why would a democrat governor from…

I personally have no understanding of how a student who qualifies for a Pell Grant will not receive Pell Grants. The gentleman is talking about a number of issues here, but I think he is misleading the American public a bit with that…

I come from the Oil Valley where oil was discovered. In fact, I live 5 miles from Drake's Well where the first oil well that produced oil, ever, in the world was dug. Colonel Drake, in the middle of the 19th Century, came to Titusville…

Mr. Speaker, as Representative of one of the largest rural districts east of the Mississippi and cochairman of the Rural Congressional Caucus, I rise today because I feel an obligation to uphold the will of the House, which seems to have…

When 9/11 hit this country, our airline industry had a crushing blow, and the part of it that is probably hurting the most is the commuter system out there that serves much of rural America. It is vital that we continue the essential air…

I believe our future depends on the opportunities we provide to have good jobs for people to be self-sufficient, to be employed, and to pay taxes. All the programs we provide here help those who cannot participate in that and help them get…

the Miller amendment would eliminate title 4, and it is about management techniques on an accelerated basis to stem the exploding insect epidemics. To say that a research program is a ruse for commercial timber harvest is to ignore the…

7.2 million acres last year. When is enough enough? This is a 20-year-old problem. How did we get there? On the Allegheny National Forest, which I represent, we have foresters, biologists, hydrologists, soil scientists, game biologists…

I will conclude by sharing that this amendment is important to the parts of this country who have huge heating costs and cooling costs, to help those that are less fortunate than most of us, those that a big piece of their income goes to…

This amendment is a Band-Aid. This amendment helps people who cannot afford to pay for energy, and there are a lot of them. This winter we have had spikes in prices because we do not have enough gas and we do not have enough oil; and when…

What we need for the sake of our economy is we need reliable supplies of all energies, and we need to prevent spikes. The spikes from 2 years ago started us back into a recession. The spikes this winter are going to slow down our economy…

No, the reserves I am speaking about are the caverns where we store storage gas. Not reserves. There are a lot of reserves in this country, but a lot of them are under those orange areas where we cannot drill.

I think it is very vital that we pass an energy bill in this Congress and pass one that is meaningful. We must continue to improve efficiency and conservation of our energy use. I think in electricity we need to veer away from natural gas…

That is correct. And if we do not up the drilling in this country, because we are only importing a small part from Canada, and then we import 4 or 5 percent of liquid natural gas, but we only have two places, one in Louisiana and I think…

in my district there are a number of caverns that are used to store gas for the New England area and the northeast. There are huge salt caverns that we pump the gas into in the summertime. The underground gas reserves in America are the…