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Floor Speech

Date: Sept. 16, 2009
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Energy Natural Resources

Mr. SMITH of Nebraska. Madam Speaker, the Natural Resources Committee has the responsibility not only to take steps to encourage more nuclear, solar, hydropower, and wind energy but also to increase the production of domestic oil and gas. Such an all-of-the-above approach will lead to lower energy costs and to more jobs for American citizens while also serving to make our country safer.

Later today, the Natural Resources Committee will be holding a hearing on H.R. 3534, a bill which will simply erect more obstacles to job creation and energy production. This bill creates new levels of bureaucracy, which inevitably will slow new development of American sources of energy. Now is not the time to further delay the advancement of American energy.

Madam Speaker, it is simple: more roadblocks to energy development mean less energy for Americans.


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