considered as a down and a done as adopted in the can the house been considered to have insisted on its amendment and requested a conference with the senate there on without objection house concurrent resolution three twelve is laid upon the table houses on the house an image to the concurrent resolution on the budget senate and current resolution seventy three instructed to increase negative budget authority and outlays in section one hundred one nineteen function nine twenty allowances wisconsin's records of thirty minutes which figure i feel myself such time as i may consume first off mr speaker i would like to celebrate the fact that we are here in this well talking about this motion to go to conference and i want to compliment our chairman of the budget committee mr spratt the gentleman from south carolina and i mean this is a very sincere way the budget process didn't work if you don't have a budget and i want to compliment the gentleman from south carolina for making it the two years in a row for actually bringing forward and getting through a budget resolution it looked like it wasn't going to happen we won't be supporting it but the fact that the budget chairman is keeping the budget process intact speaks very good to this institution good to the process and i want to compliment the gentleman from south carolina for doing that now on to the motion to instruct everyone agrees mr speaker that we need to reduce our reliance on foreign oil but frankly if we really want to move forward with greater energy independence we should increase our petroleum supply by increasing our domestic production of oil the motion accomplishes just that the republican motion calls on the conferees to increase the receipt levels in the final budget resolution by expanding leasing in federal areas in the west in a continental shelf in the arctic national wildlife refuge in an environmentally sound manner yesterday the house voted overwhelmingly to suspend the purchase of the strategic petroleum reserve is a means to increase oil supply and reduce gasoline prices it's unclear whether this will have any impact on oil prices much less gas prices this motion would accomplish that that result it would number one increase domestic oil production and put downward pressure on oil prices and gasoline prices number two it would reduce our reliance on foreign oil and number three it would reduce the deficit more than a year ago the democratic majority pledged to bring gasoline prices down on january fourth two thousand and seven the day the democratic majority took control of the house the price of gas  an average of two thirty three a gallon today americans are paying an average of three seventy second six per gallon to pump put put fuel in their cars yes two days ago and you know she was content it was three ninety five it's four dollars in some  areas as an increase of at least a dollar forty three a gallon republicans are seeking to tap into america's great natural resources in an environmentally sound and effective way to provide the consumers the relief at the pump that they deserve while reducing our reliance on foreign oil this republican motion is a step in the right direction to enhance our energy security and put in place a long term plan to provide relief at the pump these are the steps we need to take to assist we would deliver to the american public one million barrels of oil for the thirty continuing years a day thirty years one million barrels a day that's a very minor estimate but more than that it will grow by this year if we were just  one million barrels a day or more that's more than vendor whether that eventuated from jacking the prices around and if we were to do it my good friend it would drop the price of oil about ten dollars a barrel immediately and fossil fuel why we don't do that i cannot understand yes we do have to change our our modes of transportation in a period of time but there's no way you can bridge the ability of not using fossil fuels of the short term and you think about the consumer today in alaska you think about the consumer the rest of the nation and what they have to do a four dollars a gallon maybe five dollars and i invest that was not a goal as far as ten dollars by the end of the year and that's going to be on your watch we're talking about the budget we want to solve the budget problem let's create some dollars but more to let's create less dependency on foreign oil how we can sit here as a body and send dollars overseas and the billions of dollars to give you some idea of the average tax for every nonsense this is about demand globally and supply we're not the only buyers anymore america's not the only ones that ab automobiles america is not the only one using fossil fuels china is burning more barrels of fuel today than we are and that drives the price up we're no longer the only buyer and the seller can ask for the price they're going to get the only way you can relieve that is start developing our national on federal lands are all for the good of the american people and is going to be a total climate change because it is going to happen in this world they will be burning oil and we'll be on able to think and support our people until we develop our fields as we should develop and i'm open america's listening to what america will wake up to the fact we have the ability to do it here today we have the ability to because i can solve the budget problem but we have a better ability to solve the energy problem in america i'm asking michael mccaul eggs let's do it let's do it today let's do it in a future let's solve the problems of energy in this nation you budget resolution a good resolution that moves of budget balance by the year two thousand and twelve and along the way it accumulates less debt than the bush budget it limits spending to a reasonable level but i can truthfully medicare medicaid that are provided for call for in the president's budget and it protects the middle income tax cuts provides a m t relate for middle income families for whom it was never never intended so therefore we have the outline of a good budget for the coming fiscal year and we need to pass that said to conference bring the conference report back we have an excellent chance i think of passing the first conference report back to back since the year two thousand what my friends topic years wholly out of the scope of the resolution they decide particularly ours and wholly outside the jurisdiction of our committee we don't assume man or revenues we don't preclude any more revenues because we don't have the authority to prescribe that the most we can provide for in a budget resolution of the certain revenue floor a certain amount of revenues be collected over the year to be applied against expenditures that we broadly put a broadly distributed in something called the three zero two eight section and that's of our bill and the four you know to be providing for three zero to be allocations so this budget resolution this resolution to instruct what you would call upon to do we don't take a position for anwar or against and more in the budget resolution because it's not the place for that kind of policy resolution there are other places there for that to be for that to be a budget resolution we do not need this resolution the motion to attract conferees to to do anything towards balancing the budget you've got a very nominal sum of money in there when it comes to a five year period of time and one question i would leave with you is you call for and then creates a negative but you know authority and allies if i don't know what that meant i would know what it meant when i first saw it on the printed page here but i would take it that not only does all revenues fall under this rubric could so would fart products national parks and things of that not so it's not clear exactly what you're calling for here i can only say it's instruction is a red herring it's not needed twenty three minutes and if the south carolina has twenty six and a half minutes i'll you myself thirty seconds simply to say using the chairman's argument then there's no money in this budget for veterans no money in this budget for science no money in this budget for education if you use that that's that line of ar t only money for discretionary spending and here a budget resolution is a series of numbers and we're saying let's adjust the numbers to accommodate the policy we're talking about here drilling for oil in the arctic national wildlife refuge the outer continental shelf the inner mountain west at this at before i speak in favor of the ryan motion to instruct conferees on the budget let me give you a post s p r suspension update price of oil went up a dollar seventy three on the mercantile market yesterday after we voted to suspend shipments into the s p r at some point and i sure hope it does come down and we'll work together hopefully in a bipartisan basis to bring oil and energy prices down but the are symbolic that yesterday had the opposite of effect of what it was intended because prices when i let me spoke speaking in favor of this motion struck i would point all the members in the body to the quote above the speaker rostrum but daniel webster says the very first part of that quote is says let us develop the forces of our land and this motion to instruct is a direct descendant of that sentiment we are not helpless we are not hopeless in this country in terms of energy if we will develop the resources of our land we could in all probability within five maybe six seven years double the amount of oil or oil equivalent that we're producing right now in the in the united states we're currently producing somewhere between six and seven maybe a little over seven million barrels as congressman young is just pointed out if we were to drill in anwar it would start out with the production capacity in all likelihood of about three hundred thousand barrels a day and in the optimum case it could be ramped up to about two million barrels a day within five or six years we have over a million barrels a day of production off the coast of california we have two trillion barrels of oil equivalent in the shale oil deposits and in wyoming and colorado we haven't even inventoried what's off the coast of the east coast of the united states we have the chinese drilling between cuba and florida and yet we're not allowed because the moratorium to drill there so we're not helpless we can also develop our coal resources congressman shimkus says a bill on coal to liquids that is very helpful and yet we stand here and refuse to adopt any supplies policies at all as prices go higher and higher and higher if you live in an urban area where you don't depend on an automobile you may not feel those high prices but if you if you live in a suburban or rural area where you i have to drive to work and drive to shop if you work for a trucking company if you work for an airline company and you say the price of diesel and the price of aviation fuel go higher and higher and higher you feel it is not an academic exercise so this motion to instruct simply says let's have some domestic development of our resources let's try to bring those prices than not just with a conservation component but with a supply component and with world markets where they are today production of oil is somewhere around eighty five million barrels a day the consumption of oil is somewhere around eighty five million barrels a day demand for oil in the united states the last two months in a row has gone down but the demand for all the rest of the world has gone up and it's gone up more in the rest of the world than it's gone down here in the united states but if we were to be producing another million two million three million barrels of oil a day in the united states that would create a cushion that would take some of the heat out of the market and the price would go down so i can't imagine any member of this heidi that doesn't have a constituency that's concerned about higher food prices higher energy prices and higher prices of living let's vote for the mo certain absurdity to this today that the oil companies the poor oil companies have had their hands tied with a president from texas and oil man vice president from texas and loyal man chairman of the energy committee was from texas chairman of the subcommittee on energy was from texas the majority leader was from texas all over the time that the republicans controlled the house the senate and the presidency so during that time by the way and this is the good news the bush administration actually gain to the oil and gas industry two hundred sixty eight million acres of american land to drill on for oil and gas that you guys go and drill there and guess what we got last year exxon mobil the other four big companies they reported one hundred forty two billion dollars worth of profits pretty good tipping the american people upside down how much of it did they put into renewables how much they put into the supply side the new energy sources wind solar all the new technologies exxon mobile ten million dollars they made forty two billion they put ten million into renewables and what else do they say when we come and say how about getting back some of those tax breaks so we can give them oh it's of wind and solar the oil executive said you can't touch our tax breaks and by the way we're also not going to invest in renewable well there is a future i future is saying let's go to the most pristine parts of the country let's go drill there let's not invest in solar it's not investing when let's not reinvest that's the plan and by the way the price of oil under the bush watch has gone from thirty dollars a gallon thirty dollars a barrel to one hundred twenty six dollars a barrel it's gone from a buck forty five a gallon to three dollars and seventy two cents a gallon it's gone from it's gone and when the strategic petroleum reserve when the strategic petroleum reserve is filled and ready to go so that we can deploy it the president says he doesn't want to use it well here's the spigot mr president it's on top of the white house you just have to turn it the point the strategic petroleum reserve the price of a barrel of oil will begin to drop a media i always looked following my my friend for massachusetts you know must most countries view their resources as a strategic advantage but we in this country and the majority views our resources as an environmental hazard this motion to wreak wreak instruct is critical how can we not talk we if if we can get a million barrels out of an war at today's prices you know how much money goes into the federal treasury one hundred and ninety two billion dollars one hundred and ninety two billion dollars go tell that to your blue dogs you're holding up emergency supplemental bill because of pay go that's just anwar let's talk about the other resources that we have here's the reality it wasn't president bush that promised in two thousand and six that the democrats have a plan to lower gas prices that was speaker pelosi in fact she made the same mistake today she claimed numerous times that the ag bill will lower prices gas prices now i voted for it i'm an ethanol guy i'm a cellulosic guy but if we don't bring more supply into the market we're not going to lower prices the demand from china and the demand from india and the demand from europe just overwhelms us is overwhelming the market fifty eight dollars when this majority came into power one hundred twenty five dollars a day haven't used this for a while the palosi premium two dollars and thirty three cents when you came in the majority speaker pelosi said we're going to lower gas prices three seventy seven today chairman dingell's here he's pulled this bill off the table but climate change would add fifty cents a gallon four dollars and twenty cents is what we would be paying under climate change and current gas prices was the solution the great outer continental shelf billions of barrels of oil trillions of cubic feet of natural gas there are you can't deny it the eastern gulf off limits by appropriation bill not resources bill it's an appropriation bill that puts us off limits it's in the o c s off the western coast billions of barrels of oil trillions of cubic feet we can have it what would we do with one hundred ninety two billion dollars for man more royalties let's go and take american call united mine workers jobs let's build coal to liquid refineries operating engineer building trade jobs let's build pipelines major organized labor jobs and let's use it to lower the cost of jet fuel so we don't have aviation industry going bankrupt hundred ninety two billions would go a long way to do the solar to do the wind power to everything we want to do we want more supply every energy problem they have never found and your problem that drilling won't solve when will our colleagues in the minority get it into their heads that we cannot drill our way out of our energy problems it is what i think is amazing is that they've actually finally realized that there is a problem that needs to be addressed some of them have actually finally acknowledged that global warming is a problem but they still refuse to let go of the tired  direction that they continue to want to travel in which is to prop up their wealthy corporate interests prop up the oil industry which is the most profitable industry in this country with billions of dollars in oil subsidies and today's solution in this motion to instruct is that we should drill for more oil in a pristine environmental environmental tract in alaska go off the coast of florida and the outer continental shelf put drop some oil drills so that we can really severely negatively impact the tourism across the across the coastal regions instead of trying to make sure that we can truly invest in alternative energy research which part of no we need an alternative don't they understand well consistently the voters have said they want to move this country in a direction they want to make sure that we invest in alternative energy research and wean ourselves truly off of our dependence on oil not just hear more talk about it mr speaker drilling is not the answer it is inappropriate the subject that we should have more drilling in anwar in this in the in wyoming off the coast of florida we need to make sure that we can finally step up and make a bipartisan commitment that we will invest in alternative energy research so that we can finally and this energy crisis that we find ourselves   let's look at this in perspective we just learned from mr shimkus that over the lifetime of an war if we just opened up that area to produce that we could provide revenues of hundred ninety two billion on the least bit and royalties and we're always we always seem to be looking at least the bills that keep coming forward from our friends from the other side of the aisle from the majority always seem to be trying to raise revenues and certainly the two billion or i'm sorry the six billion per year that we could get just from the an war royalties and beds would pay for the g i bill that they're going to raise taxes for tomorrow  now let's look at this of why not only is it a bonus that we raise revenue by the way that we were we have a deficit that we're running so i think where we can raise revenues without raising taxes is some where we should look but over the weekend i had the opportunity to sit down with a small trucking company in omaha they were telling me that the average price of diesel across the nation is four dollars and fifty cents is costing them almost my dollar per mile what does that mean to the consumers well it means that your family budget is going in the tank literally that means that when you go to the grocery store that you're paying higher prices for food not because some portion of corn is being used for ethanol what it means is that the transportation costs of the food from the farm to the grocery stores is so high and being absorbed then the prices at the grocery store so that's why your milk is going up that's why the eggs of gone up that's why your grain related foods like cereals and breads have gone up and yes we need to focus on demand here but we can also win win by focusing on supply so let's do the right thing and good job mr lyon chairman for the your line ministers a gentleman from california mr mr gentleman is recognized thank you gentleman for yielding and for his work on putting forward a balance a budget that brings us to balance and is fiscally responsible the speaker what we have here is a repeat of what we heard during the twelve years that our friends on the republican side of the aisle try to push forward a very failed policy as maher our friend mr markey from massachusetts mentioned with regard to anwar this is a policy that was tried over the years by a republican congress with a republican president and never once did it pass because of the flaws and challenges that it would present what i think we have here is a classic case of what many of us will recall from the george foreman mohammed al the fight a case of rope a dope where you're trying to deflect what's really going on on this floor tonight and that is the fact that this budget presented by this congress will bring us to a balance budget faster than the president's budget at the same time that it's providing for some fiscal responsibility when it comes to tax cuts energy policy how we treat our kids in school what we do for our kids when it comes to health care all that's  done at a in a way that not only brings us to a point of having fiscal sanity in the way we do things but does it without having to deal with these gimmicks that we have now with anwar the reality is that if you don't divert the american public's attention to what's going on its budget they would be very happy the fact that we are restoring score responsibility by making sure that anything that we proposed to do that cost money will be paid for so that we don't continue to see rising budget deficits is phenomenal and it's do what we see here is an effort to devote resources to energy that's renewal sources that provides us with renewable sources on energy that provides us with a fish and resource sources of energy that moves us towards solar towards wind and we put money in there and we do it in a fiscally responsible way we don't cut the money that the president never provided for his no child left behind education program we provide the money we do all those things and we do them in fiscally responsible way that the story in this budget you don't need to do rope a dope to get past that this is a time for us to move in a different direction we intend to do so i urge members to vote against this motion to instruct you back down to my time gentleman from wisconsin  two and a half minutes  thank the chairman of budget committee mr spratt for you know to me the time back colleagues while the republicans continue to argue that opening more land is essential to lowering gasoline prices the facts prove otherwise we simply cannot drill our way to lower prices at the pump since two thousand and us look at those faction two thousand the amount of drilling on federal lands has steadily increased between one thousand nine hundred nine and two thousand and seven drilling permits from public lands has increased more than three hundred and sixty one percent yet gas prices as we all know too acutely have risen dramatically there is simply no correlation between the two despite the federal government's willingness to make public lands available to energy production of the forty two million acres of on shore federal lands currently being leased by all and gas companies that the red column here only about twelve million are actually in production or producing oil and gas the end history has just much available to law and this is all they're using right here they are obviously stockpiling these leases and it's been evident for at least the past decade and two thousand and seven for example the government issued seven thousand five hundred and sixty one permits to drill yet only forty seven hundred four wells were started over the past four years there have been ninety eight hundred more permits issued than the wells drilled today and gas industry holds in excess of three thousand permits for on shore oil and gas development that they are not using to increase domestic production now here's the most important point for my colleagues on the other side of the al some would argue that the entire outer continental shelf should be open to all and gas development this is a spacious argument as drilling off the coast of california florida virginia has been consistently and repeatedly opposed by both parties and for those on the minority side who may one a vote for this motion to recommit just remember this will be viewed as a motion to allow as a vote to allow all on gas drilling off your shores according to department interior parts of the o c s primarily the gulf of mexico that currently open to drilling contain seventy nine percent of oil and eighty two percent the natural on shore out of the forty million acres currently being held by oil and gas company under lease in the outer continental shelf the oil and gas industry has put less than seven million of those acres into production it's already there it's available towm yet they're not using it and they want to go elsewhere to drill in a nutshell the industry has access to most of the estimated technologically recoverable natural gas that's occurring in the federal o c s in fact four times as much as is estimated by the minerals management service or core to occur in the moratoria areas but the industry is not development developing it you cannot drill your way to lower gas prices at the pump the industry has plenty available to him let him use what they already have before going into their prestine areas like anwar you know back german yields back his time michigan mississippi a gentleman from michigan is recognized for two minutes a keep saying congress needs to open more areas to domestic drilling the u s has already increased domestic drilling and gas prices have continued continued to climb since two thousand the number of wells drilled on federal land has increased by sixty six percent from three thousand to nearly five thousand wells during that same time price of gas has doubled according to the federal government seventy nine percent of the oil in the older continental shelf is already available for leasing eighty two percent of the gas in the outer continental shelf is available for leasing and still we open up more lanes to leasing in two thousand and six the u s cannot drill its way out of high energy costs the other fact that my friends always try to put forth is that environmental laws are stopping oil companies from building refineries completely false in the two thousand and five energy's policy act we actually put in there a section that as  secretary of energy bodman said eases the constraints that have strangled new refinery construction we put that in in two thousand and five yet no one has ever come forward and said we want to use that provision to put forth more refineries the u s has actually shut down its refineries since nine hundred eighty one there were three hundred twenty four refineries now there are only one hundred forty nine refineries as chairman of oversight investigations we have the  texaco chevron mortal that all said in order to raise our prices we have to shut down refineries and they've shut them down mergers in the oil industry has affected prices two thousand and four the government accountability office found her more than twenty six inventories have actually have surplus march seventh two thousand and eight we had a surplus of twenty two million barrels of gas more than the previous year gas supplies are up oil gas demand is actually down and what do we have we have a fifty one percent increase in as same period of time gas went from three ten the three sixty one to april first look at weekend we've had mergers we've had refineries not been built we have more exploratory we have more supply supply is up demand is down but prices have gone sky high why is that look at the look at a profit for exxon mobile first quarter of two thousand and eight ten point nine million billion royal dutch shell nine point one billion b p seven point six billion a sixty three percent from last year chevron five point two billion conoco phillips four point one billion that is almost forty billion dollars in the first quarter that's why gas prices are so high that's why this congress must act to lower gas prices gentleman from wisconsin this time mr chairman i misspeak i'd like you a few minutes to the  country pushing about four dollars a gallon will get people out on the road for vacations this summer and i don't know what it's going to take for congress to take dramatic action to lessen our dependence on foreign oil and i've got to tell you i was a little bit encouraged last night mr speaker the democrat majority brought a bill to the floor that actually endorsed the idea that the cost of oil and gasoline is affected by supply and demand  we voted to suspend purchases by the strategic petroleum reserve therefore lessening the demand on global oil believing that the price would come down well today this motion to strike conferees is all about increasing the supply and look we hear a lot about oil profits we always have and no one respects the previous speaker more than me but who in the world thinks that raising taxes on oil companies is going to lower their prices at the pump i mean for heaven's sakes we understand as americans that commodities and the price of commodities are dictated by supply and demand we simply have to take those measures in an environmentally responsible way to explore and further exploit the resources that we have in the ground and i speak specifically the last alaska national wildlife region and the other areas that are affected by this motion to instruct as long as we are going to continue to look at the most volatile area of the world for the majority of our energy needs we are going to continue to see the extraordinary per barrel prices that we're seeing today and americans and hoosiers are going to be suffering at the pump let's get real let's do something about the supply let's lessen our dependence on foreign oil vote for this motion to instruct conferees so that america can begin to realize on  natural resources that this country hand and i yield back gentleman from south carolina as chairman i yield three minutes to the gentleman from illinois mr mann the gentleman from illinois is recognized for three minutes after his a speaker a number of folks have meant on the other side brought up stories about talking about the speaker and what democrats claim two thousand and five when you pass the republican congress passed the president's energy bill let me tell you what some folks said the minority leader at that time says this will lower energy prices for consumers the minority whip mr do believe it will help us become more energy independent foreign oil will expand our use of renewable fuels fuels and will make our electricity production transmission more reliable all the tools help us lower price increases that hasn't been accomplished by any stretch of the imagination when you pass it at that point but gasoline was about two but it was a fifty nine dollars a barrel today as you know it's one hundred twenty five for barrel bucks a barrel so it hasn't accomplished any of that gold is all what you claimed in your marketing at that point when you had an energy bill on the floor in two thousand five because you only had one strategy you didn't want to do anything about conference conservation you didn't want to do anything about renewable energy sources an investment in future technology and you don't want to do anything as my colleague from west virginia told you that you with over one thousand eight hundred permits out there force american companies to start drilling in those permits rather than holding those permits here in the united states where we have some of the energy that's plenty of that to go around with the congressman with we've done is put a budget together that breaks with the past it offers a change in the sense it puts our budget in balance invest in education over what the president does it will invest in edgy and a new g e technologies for the future and they also the middle class get a tax cut this is a budget that's not only balance but is in balance with our values and our priorities here now you all have to come up with a unique slogan change you deserve that's what you've marketing all you've offered is more of the same more the same of it's three trillion dollars of debt the largest increase in debt in the shortest period of time in american history that's the change america deserves you've offered ten million children without health care to go walk and is that change you can deserve you've offered an energy policy that is to continue to rely on just drilling without looking at conservation without looking at future technology is that change you can deserve the american people deserve better and they've offered here in a budget that is in balance with our priority balance with our economic goals to play reef put resources towards our education towards energy technology and towards in fact making sure the middle class get a tax cut in two thousand and five when you control the house the senate and the white house you put together an energy bill that led america to where it is today i think american people deserve a change you know back their major my time the gentleman from wisconsin mr speaker there are some i like you four minutes to a senior member of the commerce committee mr upton from michigan the gentleman from michigan is recognized for four minutes well thank you ms vigor and i think my friend mr ryan as well you know gas prices yesterday in kalamazoo michigan hit three ninety nine a gallon three ninety nine in the next number of years you know i can remember when our imports from other countries for oil and gas crossed the fifty percent threshold and it was sixty percent in a few years it's going to be eighty eight percent of the oil that we consume is going to come from overseas and sadly our report that this country is the unprepared for the future for a country that's going to need fifty percent more energy by the year two thousand and thirty now we've done some things on conservation we've done some cafe standards but you know that's not overnight it's going to take a number of years and we've done some things and building standards in appliance standards lighting those things kick in a few years from now but you know what i think all of us here and based on last night's vote believe in the theory of supply and demand worldwide the demand is going up dramatically china in india ten fifteen percent annual growth rates are demands actually declined because of the price by about a percent over the last year but the supply has stayed the same yes you could talk about more oil drills more wells drilled but the old existing wells aren't producing the oil that they used to from the ninety's to now alaskan oil has declined by fifty percent fifty percent and yet bill clinton when he vetoed the anwar bill ten years ago said that's ten years off we don't need that now well guess what ten years later we need that oil we need greater supply last night's vote taking money out of spro sixty thousand barrels a day a lot of us voted for because that means that the supply is going to go up for the consumers by sixty thousand barrels a day so we're onto them as overwhelmingly here in the house but whether it's alaska whether it's off to our drilling i don't know how many of you here know that china is drilling off cuba forty five miles off the florida coast china is  off florida yet we can't do that i think we have a limit of a hundred miles eighty five percent of our offshore drilling is off found we need to reverse that last year in this house we had a  that passed prevailed by six votes that took land in our b l m lands public lands out in colorado utah and wyoming it took it off so that we can allow the permits to get oil shale the oil shale reserves there are expected to exceed a trillion barrels that's more than the saudis and we can't even allow the permit in for companies to go in and explore and perhaps increase the supply so that we can decrease the price was such a provision i look forward to a revote on that same amendment perhaps this year the canadians i met with the canadian minister of energy a couple weeks ago with the ambassador they are now successfully extracting a million barrels a day from oil shale in alberta and because of a certain section that was in the energy bill offered successfully last year we can't take that in this country if you want to increase the supply so the price can come down we have to look at domestic resources whether they be off our shores whether they be in our own lands really know that we can produce it safely or in alaska as well and we are we want the oil here and we want to help have some decreasing pressure on that price that are costing consumers in lots of ways not only their only transportation but food in all those different things so i would like to think that we could adopt this resolution looking for more receipts for the domestic industry and with that the speaker i yield back the balance  time the gentleman's time has expired gentleman from south carolina taking this country toward bankruptcy so there is so incredibly out of balance unlike the twelve budgets given to us by the republican majority here this budget gets us the balance in by two thousand and twelve and guess what it has nothing to do with the wildlife refuge it's not an issue in the budget you want to have that debate let's have that debate in the resources committee another appropriate venue but if you want to have that debate i got a few things to say i serve on the resources committee we have six thousand six hundred and sixty nine leases that are out there with the oil and gas industry that aren't producing thirty million acres of land that's covered by that and offshore we have nearly a quarter of a million acres in the naval petroleum reserve bill clinton least our naval petroleum reserve to the oil industry guess what they are not yet developing the naval petroleum reserve there's a tremendous amount to developed there but you want to jump in leapfrog somewhere else for imaginary bits of oil under the most optimistic estimates there's one hundred days in anwar now we could do better if every american properly inflated the tires on their cars and their trucks and their s u v s to try and find an air pump these days they're done in hard to find you want to do something let's have a federal program to put air pumps out there and get people to fully inflate their tires there's a sustainable way to cut  fantasy of anwar which the republicans want to engage in is to distract us from the speculation the profiteering by the oil companies speculation the commodity markets driving up prices fifty cents a gallon legislation they passed for enron now bankrupt defunct and then we have the the issue of the strategic petroleum reserve we have come together on a bipartisan basis to say let's lower the price of gas at the pump by not buying the most expensive oil in history they don't agree with us  going after the opec countries so you know let's not talk about something that's potentially ten years out that doesn't have anything to do with the budget let's talk about real measures on energy and let's talk about a real budget get this country back on the path of fiscal sustainability and responsibility delighted the day that we're talking about energy i think it's vital because i want to tell you something if we don't get a lid on energy prices in america there will be no level of government with a budget that will balance the cost t heat our schools the cost to heat our hospitals the cost to do everything is going to explode the cost to move goods and services is exploding and it's about time americans how do young lady say to me last week said mr peterson i make three hundred twenty dollars a week i used to spend ninety dollars to drive to work now i'm spending one hundred forty how do i pay my bills what she doesn't know if she hates  home with natural gas and the natural gas that we're putting in the ground today for next winter is heating is eleven dollars and fifty cents last year it was running between six fifty and seven she's looking at a fifty percent increase in home heating costs next year which she cannot meet folks the average working american is struggling to pay their bills because of energy costs your state governments our county governments and our hospitals and our schools are going to take money away from the classroom to heat those facilities if since congress does not address the energy issue we're going to collapse the economic viability of this country energy runs this country had we've had two dollar oil and ten two dollar gas and ten dollar oil most of our lifetime with a few spikes in the seventy's eighty's and ninety's folks we have a hundred and twenty five dollar oil eleven dollar and fifty cent gas we've not had a storm in the gulf in two years that always causes spike prices we've not had a major country that supplies oil to it's all tipped over or have a coup that took away the government and took away that supply of oil i'm predicting that countries like china who are amassing energy all around the world will read one of these days where they have purchased all the oil and gas that one of the major contributing countries could produce for the next decade and we won't get any of it folks if we have a storm in the gulf this summer like they're predicting and they're predicting them if we have any kind of a terrorist attack on the supply system one hundred twenty five dollar oil will seem cheap to us i'm not sure this kind of qana me can handle one hundred twenty five dollar oil i'm for ever renewable there is but let's look at the energy department's production all oil gas coal nuclear renewables non hydro and non hydro that's their projection we've spent thirty billion dollars for renewables folks if we double wind and solar and i wish we could double it every year but if we double it will still be less than three quarters of one percent of our energy needs where is the renewable com the renewable that's grown the fast is would waste with pellet stoves hitting one hundred homes with factories heating their factories with wood waste would waste has been the fastest growing energy renewable folks america better get serious and we better produce output to outer continental shelf we better do anwar we better do that midwest cold cold liquid coal to gas wind solar we need it all folks america is an energy crisis the gentleman from south carolina this is the guy i have no further requests this time and so i will reserve the balance one time gentlemen reserve the balance of the time gentleman from wisconsin close and therefore all you'll be you to finish your remarks and i'll reserve the right clothes and i'll do that the gentleman from wisconsin reserves his time the gentleman from south carolina is recognized let me say again but say more  before and it's also outside the jurisdiction of our budget committee kirchick you know over this drilling in alaska or wherever the continental united states belong through the resources committee not to the budget committee so if you want to do what they're proposing to do here you're in the wrong place for the wrong committee with the wrong proposal revenues from animal are not provided for in this resolution they're not preclude in this resolution the budget committee does not have the jurisdiction as my good friend mr on those to tell the ways and means committee or any other committee that has a power to produce revenues exactly how to do it we what we have here called negative budget authority in addition if you read the cryptic language of this resolution you'll find it doesn't mention oil or anwar no where in it you have to authority which could apply and my estimation to selling parkland selling forest products selling other assets the united states which would be negative budget authority just like the revenues coming from a lease we protect the income tax cuts for middle income americans with vied tax relief from the a m t for middle income americans firm it was never intended it's a good budget outline for our country and will move the chairman for getting us to a budget resolution for doing it two years in a row that's not an easy accomplishment so on behalf of the institution it's important that we pass these budget resolutions problem is we're not going to pass a good budget resolution the reason the gentleman's budget resolution cheese in a balanced budget is because it contains the largest tax increase in american history it cuts the child tax credit in half it repeals the relief for the marriage penalty raises income taxes across the board raises capital gains and dividends taxes brings the death tax back in and puts us on a path for the larger tax increase in american history by replacing the alternative minimum tax so yes that gentleman's budget does balance because it only increases spending by two hundred eighty billion dollars wh increases taxes by six hundred eighty three billion dollars that's how the gentleman but balancing the budget but more to the point here today the house voted to waive the pay go to give farm subsidies to millionaires tomorrow the house is going to support pay go they're going to force pay go to raise taxes on small businesses so this is what we're doing here in this congress whenever it needs time to keep a girl in place to control spending it's out the door it's wave that swept under the rug it's baseline shopping number cooking gimmicks in cliffs but whenever the time comes to raise taxes that's when we enforce pay go mr speaker pay go doesn't exist pay go is not in place it is not being enforced it is a sham the only thing that paygo does today is make the majority give them excuse to raise taxes it doesn't cut spending it doesn't reduce the deficit it just raises taxes to fuel more spending watch what happens tomorrow today millionaires get agriculture subsidies because we wave pay go tomorrow taxing small businesses to create a new in title and program but to the point of this motion to instruct what we're trying to achieve with this motion to instruct is try to make this budget a little bit better a little bit better by talking about the issue of the day which is people are not being able to spread their paychecks as fast as they were before they can't get as much out of their paychecks because a four dollar gasoline why do we have four dollars gasoline because we don't have an energy policy in this country and what we're simply saying one of the reasons is we have so much supply we're not getting sixteen billion barrels at anwar two trillion billion two trillion barrels at oil shale wyoming montana eighty six billion baylor barrels in the outer continental shelf let me say that one more time sixteen billion barrels in alaska two trillion barrels in shale in the inner mountain west and eighty six billion barrels in the outer continental shelf all off limits if we just did anwar according to the c r s the federal government would see a surge in revenues no new taxes not even cutting spending one hundred ninety one billion dollars one hundred ninety one billion dollars according to the c r s from just doing and while that's the smallest of all of our reserves think what we could do with one hundred ninety one billion dollars we could reduce the deficit we can create a manhattan project for research and development for new of the energies to put fossil fuels out of business but no we're doing none of this so this is the economic equivalent of shooting yourself in the foot of cutting off your nose to spite your face this is not an energy policy this is a bad budget resolution that raises taxes on the american workers and families and businesses it's a time when they should the least time we should be raising taxes is when we're possibly in an economic recession and the last thing we ought to be doing is raising taxes on people furthermore with high food prices high gas prices we shouldn't be raising people's taxes that's what this budget does so to make it a little bit better let's get some of our own oil and gas from our own country instead of being so reliant on foreigners for it or giving the wrong people or money people who are not our friends overseas so passionate pass this motion to instruct make this budget a little bit better and open up production so we can actually truly do something to lower the price of oil and make us less dependent on foreign oil with that and you'll back to balance my time gentleman's time has expired all time having expired without objection the previous question is ordered the question is on the motion all those in favor say aye those opposed no the opinion is the chair the nos ha are requested those favoring a vote by the a's and nays will rise a sufficient number having risen the a's and nays are ordered pursuant to clause eight of rule twenty further proceedings on this question will be postponed and agreed to the conference asked by the senate on the disagreeing votes of the two houses the clerk will report the title of the bill h r forty forty and actual establish consumer product safety standards and other states the requirements for children's products and to reauthorize and modernize the consumer product safety commission is their objection to their requests hearing none so ordered for what purpose does the gentleman from kentucky rise to offer a motion to instruct conferees the clerk will report the motion mr went filled up contention is that the managers on the part of the house at the conference on the disappearing says of the two houses on the senate amendment to the bill h r forty forty be instructed to insist upon the position contained in the house bill pursuant to the rule the gentleman from kentucky mr wickfield in the gentleman from michigan mr dingell will be recognized for thirty minutes each the chair recognizes the gentleman from kentucky thank you mr speaker on december the night scenes of last year this body spoke with a resoundingly voice of approval for our consumer product safety modernization act the measure pass a unanimous vote of four hundred seven to zero i'd like to thank chairman dingell ranking member barton chairman rush and my predecessor mr stearns for the great job that they did in getting this bill through the house h r forty four it is a bipartisan product we worked for four months and in the end came up with a string gente but reasoned approach to strengthen the consumer product safety commission and to vastly improve the safety of our children's products the result was a bill that creates the toughest lead standard in the world and imposes mandatory safety standards on products for young children to ensure such standards are met we require third party testing and certification of children's products and nearly double the consumer product safety commission budget over four years to ensure both  safety standards and the testing and certification requirements are met all the new standards and increased enforcement in the world will not help parents and lest they also know about dangerous products we therefore require improved public notice of recalls as well as tracking labels on all children's products so parents can identify recalled toys when they hear about them we also lo restrictions to allow the consumer products safety commission to release critical product safety information to the public when people face an imminent health and safety standards mr speaker i strongly support h r forty forty i know that this is a work product that will maximize our opportunity to protect children from dangerous toys and products and i urge and hope that the house managers will stand by the provisions which passed this chamber unanimously only five months ago and insist upon the measures of h r forty forty as passed by the house and i reserve the balance my town gentleman from kentucky reserves include extraneous material on the motion to instruct under consideration without objection so ordered publish mr speaker i yield myself now such time as i may consume gentleman from michigan is recognize shaker i am pleased to rise to speak loud behalf of the thoroughly bipartisan legislation underlying this motion i begin with commendation to my good friend from kentucky mr whitfield and  my colleagues on both sides of the aisle including mr barton the ranking minority member and the other members of the subcommittee and full committee who have worked so hard on this legislation on both sides of the aisle i would observe that this is a thoroughly bipartisan piece of legislation it pass out of the committee fifty one to nothing and passed the house four hundred  seven to nothing it is the one of the most important consumer protection bills to come before this house in this congress it is crucially important for us to have such legislation signed into law this year and i want to point out that without it people were remain at risk from dangerous products and from and important federal regulatory who will remain both under funded and incapable of acting properly to take care of consumers legitimate concerns with regard to the safety of all manner of products from toys and from the very beginning of life right through the time that we enter the graveyard on december nineteenth two thousand and seven the house passed this legislation then without a dissenting vote it represents extraordinary work by the committee on energy and commerce and it shows how bipartisanship can function and it shows how an excellent staff on both sides of the aisle working together could bring before us legislation that is in the broad overall public interest the senate has substituted its version of the bill on march sixth two thousand and eight some elements of the senate bill are problematic but others are indeed worthy of serious consideration by the conference committee the differences between the two bills are outweighed by their similarities there is no reason why the house conferees should not return here in short order with a workable balanced and strong conference report deserving the full support of the house and upon which i'd tend to work closely with my good friends on the minority side as we have so far i want to remind my colleagues what the house bill does it bans lead beyond the most minute amount in product intended for children under twelve years of age it mandates pre market testing by certified laboratories for lead and other hazards in children's products and it sees that those laboratories are properly qualified and able to carry out their important responsibilities it places requirements on manufacturers to enhance recalls it empowers a consumer product safety commission c p s city to share information about dangerous products immediately it requires c p s see to provide the public access to a database of serious injuries and deaths caused by consumer products but it does so requiring also that the information be truthful correct and properly verified it prohibits sale and export of recalled products it ensures that c p s see effectively shares information with the states it bans industry sponsored travel by c p s see commissioners and their staff i want to observe that the motion is a good one i support i commend my good friend from kentucky for his offering of it and for his leadership in the handling of this legislation and i get and want to pay my respects and compliments to my colleagues on the republican side and to my colleagues on this side by the outstanding way in which they have put together this legislation i urge that the house support the amendment or rather the motion to instruct offered by my good friend from kentucky and i reserve the balance of my time the gentleman from michigan reserves his time gemma from kentucky mr chairman i want to thank you for those conry marks and i would just reiterate i think we have a great product i think we have a wonderful opportunity in conference to come out with a great question is on the motion those in favor say aye those opposed no in the pit in the pen you know the chair the eyes have it from kentucky i ask for the a's and nays on this vote the yeas and nays are requested those in members will record their votes by electronic device pursuant to clause eight rule twenty this fifteen minute vote on the motion to instruct conferees on h r forty forty will be followed by five minute votes on the ryan motion to instruct conferees on s conrad seventy and the motion to suspend the rules and adopt house resolution seven eighty nine as amended this is a fifteen minute vote