Directing Administrator of General Services to Install Photovoltaic System for the Headquarters Building of the Department of Energy
DIRECTING ADMINISTRATOR OF GENERAL SERVICES TO INSTALL A PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM FOR THE HEADQUARTERS BUILDING OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
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Mr. BOOZMAN. Mr. Speaker, I also want to thank Chairman Oberstar for bringing this legislation through committee and to the floor in a very expeditious way.
I rise today in support of the commonsense piece of legislation which I hope will serve as an example of working hard and smart toward energy independence in America.
I have long been a proponent of this kind of affordable alternative lighting method, and energy production method, and have voted before for increases in using solar panels which produce no air pollution or a single ounce of hazardous waste.
As the leader in securing our energy independence and promoting safe and effective energy alternatives, I fully support the Department of Energy's retrofitting of solar panels to reduce energy consumption and, in fact, retrofitting in other areas, Federal buildings with more such that we can get more efficient energy technology in place. I am confident that through the Department of Energy's leadership in utilizing this lighting technology, the United States, as a whole, can make significant progress towards greater energy efficiency and independence.
All of us in this room have said our Nation needs to be more energy independent.
There is no magic wand which will make it so. It takes many steps to get to the end of the path we are traveling, and it will take many people to make this goal a reality.
Today we have the opportunity to take another step down that path. I urge my colleagues to give us the means to take this step by passing H.R. 798.
I also want to commend Chairman Oberstar. Many years ago there was a country western song by Barbara Mandrell that said she was country before country was cool, through her song, and I would say that you are very much a proponent of this legislation, a proponent of these things when it wasn't cool. And as Mr. LaTourette said, perhaps if we had done some of those things many years ago, as you were insisting then, we would be in much better shape from an energy standpoint in our Nation today.
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