Jay Inslee: “They did the same thing they have been doing since the 1800s. The way I described this is this Congress last year passed…”

“They did the same thing they have been doing since the 1800s. The way I described this is this Congress last year passed a great energy policy for 1890. It was visionary for 1890. It is Neanderthal in the year 2006. When you look at when this country has made great advances, we have done it in two major challenges that our country had in the last several decades, the Manhattan Project which developed nuclear power, and it was a major investment by the United States of America because of a major challenge. The second was the original project in the space race, and we responded and were successful. The third now needs to be an energy revolution in this country. But the fact of the matter is under this Congress and in this management of Congress, we are investing less than 15 percent of the equivalent of what we would have done in either one of those projects; and as a result, we are getting teeny, tiny little baby steps that we are encouraging when we should have these great leaps for mankind. {time} 1945 You know, if this Congress was running the space race, the quote would have been, ``Another little step up the cabin of a DC-3,'' because that is about all we would have invented. Kennedy got us to the moon; this energy policy won't get us to Cleveland.…”