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American-Made Energy and Good Jobs Act

Date: May 25, 2006
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Energy Natural Resources


AMERICAN-MADE ENERGY AND GOOD JOBS ACT -- (House of Representatives - May 25, 2006)

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Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, drilling in ANWR brings us no closer to breaking our dependence on oil, even under the most optimistic scenario. Many of us have spent the last several years working to find ways to stem the hemorrhaging of factory jobs in this country.

Nothing would do that like lowering the energy costs for our manufacturers, for our chemical and fertilizer plants. If we open ANWR, we tell our manufacturers that we are satisfied with holding the line. If we want to create more than a few good jobs and spur the economy on a scale that could rival what we saw in the 1990s with the rise of the Internet, we should not be debating whether or not to open ANWR to drilling. We should boldly invest in renewable energy everywhere in our country. We should look not to the past but to the future. We should vote ``no'' on this bill and ``yes'' to reducing our dependence on oil.

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