Leader Hoyer: “The Speaker’s written a letter to the President, just the other day saying, Mr. President, we have 773 million barrels of oil… that are in our Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Mr. President, use some of those as your father did, as Bill Clinton did, at a time of economic crisis to help our people. Help our people get to work, help them get their kids to school, help them afford their other expenses. So I tell my friends that we need to deal with this issue, we’re going to deal with this issue, we’re concerned about this issue. All 435 of us. But to hear day after day after day that somehow we who came to office just 18 months ago, after an energy policy was conjured up by the Vice President in the White House and an energy bill was passed in 2005 that somehow, somehow what’s happening now is our fault. The American public aren’t buying that.”
Rep. Hastings: “Let it be clearly understood by everybody in this House of Representatives, that I will be the last man standing saying that you will not drill off the shore of Florida beyond the limits of the law that all of us agreed to, until such time as you change that law. Florida’s beaches are pristine, Florida’s tourism depends on it, and I’m astounded that my California colleagues would come here and say that they want that kind of drilling. We own that opportunity. Sixty eight million acres are already leased, 23 million in the Arctic, what in the world are you talking about, why are the oil companies not doing that drilling at this point?”
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