Joe Cunningham: “We are all concerned about electricity costs, but let me tell Members some of the things that the Vice President and the…”

“We are all concerned about electricity costs, but let me tell Members some of the things that the Vice President and the President are not doing. They are not holding 400 Lincoln Bedroom lavish dinners for campaign contributors every single day for millions of dollars for the DNC. They do not have John Huang, Trie and Riady that are agents for the Chinese government and then sign an executive order giving missile secrets away to the Chinese. They are not holding these lavish parties. There is a controlling authority, a legal controlling authority in the Vice President's office now, unlike the Vice President that made fund-raising calls out of there and then charged it to the taxpayers. So when you want to point fingers, where were you pointing fingers with the Clinton-Gore administration? Oh, no, they were silent. But when you talk about costs, let us be realistic. The Vice President is trying to do everything he can to diminish the cost. The President has assigned the military a 40 percent goal of energy reduction. In California, they are already doing that. We were at Camp Pendleton. We were at other military bases. They have shut the things down. That is the same thing the Navy is doing, by reducing consumption. The President is doing that. So is the Vice President. But my colleagues want to talk about increased costs and shifting the blame.”