Political Quotes

“at a time of record-high energy prices, the growth of the economy is at risk, and it is critical that Congress take the necessary steps to put in place a comprehensive energy policy. The bill before us, frankly, is more limited in scope than I would prefer. It is not as ambitious as I would like in creating market incentives to overhaul the energy side of our economy; but, nevertheless, support of this bill is a critical first step for Congress to move forward to meet the critical goal of an effective national energy policy. Its passage will set us on the right path by encouraging the creation of new technologies, by promoting renewable energy sources, by modernizing and expanding our energy infrastructure, including our power energy infrastructure, and encouraging conservation. I believe we need to move forward on this bill. It is long overdue and has been a priority of Congress since this President came into office. The time has come for us to pass an energy bill. Unfortunately, we have seen the vacancy of the debate today, the fact that we are not seeing an alternative being offered by the other side. We have heard about new ideas from them, but all we have been offered is warmed-over rhetoric, and there is no technology available to us that could ever make good use of that. Please pass this legislation. It is long overdue. The time has come for us to put in place a national energy policy.”