reports the committee has had under consideration h r twenty five thirty seven and has come to no resolution the house will come to order the house will come to order please take your conversations off the floor we will consider several bills and the suspension of the will of the finalists will be announced by the close of business tomorrow on friday no votes are expected i believe i said that we will consider h r twenty six thirty four  for responsible lending and expanded debt cancellation of twenty zero seven h r fifty seven one teen tax payer simplification assistance and simplification act of twenty away and h r fifty seven fift and the ensuring continued access to student loan act of twenty away in addition we intend to consider at some point next week the bill we started today h r twenty five thirty seven to amend the federal water pollution control isolated beach monitoring  we will consider that to it t as you know secretary spelling hasn't indicated this is a very severe challenge confronting student loans obviously we want to get ready for september in particular the so the families have some confidence that they will be able to secure loans for their children or or for young people who want to college them screwing the loans themselves is a problem and part of what i used to before i came here and by that and  to see what bill looks like because it's clearly a major problem out there on the boat we took earlier today the rule vote on colombia trade if you listen to the debate you heard two very different views of that debate the view of my side was that this likely ends this discussion for this year in the view i heard the other side was not quite there at all i'm wondering if  i say that now obviously humorously except me that i believe that what was said on this side of the aisle and what the speaker as indicated on was that this was sent down we believe contrary to normal practice not with agreement the leadership in the administration on how this would be considered the speaker believed in the house did as well that additional time was  needed this was not the speaker's indicated that an attempt to kill this agreement it still could come up they're still going to be discussions between the administration and ourselves resolving we want to resolve this of outstanding issues discussed what we might reach agreement on with the president with the administration as you know we began those conversations yesterday you and i were down there at the white house together we hope to continue and hope positive movement guarding other agreements that are pending we have not discussed nor ruled out the possibility that future trade agreements colombia agreement only and those other agreements should not be prejudiced by the vote that we took today and perhaps the columbia vote will not be there i felt strongly about this i still do but i  hope my friends comments are correct in that there's some way to now make actively pursue whatever discussions need to be had on colombia but on the final two if i heard you right or the two that have been  negotiated that have not been sent up yet i think i'm hearing you say that those will this does not establish any new way of doing this not yield i don't think that this was intended necessarily to the conditions under which these would be sent forward we did not believe that that had been accomplished this administration obviously is perspective was that there had not been response to their attempts to  whatever the reason the answer your question is we do not believe at this point on that this is precedent for the two pending agreements i thank you for that last week we talked i don't but a but i don't want to buy that represent that if we were confronted with the same set of conditions that is that we did not reach agreement on how those agreements were moving forward that  this might not be again something that might be considered but it is not possible i hear your your your answer and the explanation of that and i understand that the supplemental defense budget that we talked about last week it would seem that during this period of time between now and the work period at home during memorial day that the supplemental budget is going to move like last week it was your anticipation that it might move in committee is early is this week that didn't happen i also read this week  that following the patrol crocker testimony that a number of members including the chairman of the house defense appropriations subcommittee indicated that they thought that this supplemental would have not only extraneous spending but also some restrictive language if you had any further discussions about either timing or whether this supplemental will get in my opinion bogged down and held back by any restrictive language and ideals i thank you gentlemen for you only first let me say that last week and would reiterate the comment i don't think i spoke to when the committee would move on it what i did say was that i believe the supplemental would be hopefully on the floor either the last week of april or the first week in may i don't think i referenced the committee consideration of  still believe that is the case with respect to your second question as to what might be on the supplemental obviously it has not been marked up and for many there are discussions as as it had been reported in the public press  i want to say that it's my understanding the president as i made a comment today again that what i sent you in the dollars that i sent you not a penny more will last time i will tell the my  friend i don't think that's particularly useful it continues to say from the present stage to the congress of the united states which is after all the policy making body of this country under the constitution what i propose you take or we'll leave it will not do anything other i would hope that we have discussions on this as you know that the economy is in crisis which is very nice to give money to a rack as you know i support funding our troops having said that we have people in crisis in housing people crisis in jobs we have people in crisis without health care we have people we talked about people in crisis with their educational spence's we have a lot of people in this country who are in trouble we think they need to know that the congress united states is responding to their issues as well as to the issues that the president brings up with respect to say that the my my sense of that is that the troop supplemental should be there and that we should be willing to work together on these other issues as we did the stimulus package earlier this year that's a package that the tax provisions are already going to have some impact the rebate provisions will begin to have impact where people get their money in may june and july but i think we proved with  that effort to work together that when both sides decide we want to make something happen we don't have to use the troop funding or any other issue we just have to get together and make something happen like that would be generally the view on this side of the house about how to move forward on those two issues and we can we can we can we'll probably debate this for for some time one of the issues that puts people in crisis we saw a discussion on the floor today a bill out of transportation that dealt with beach nutrition many of our members thought the transportation committee in the energy committee would be  better spending their time focused on gasoline prices which are a dollar higher today per gallon on the average than they were a year ago today and i wonder if the gentleman has any sense of when we might see some  legislation on the floor that would deal with gasoline prices you know we have passed legislation it's still pending in the senate in addition to that as you know gas prices in january twenty one more dollar forty six on average in this country and they're now on average three hundred three dollars and thirty cents so they're more the doubled during the last eighty seven months of this ministration we're concerned about that as i know you are as well the public would like to have dollar forty given where we are today from that dollar forty six where we were in january of two thousand and one having said that this bill that was on the floor today was important bill was important bill to a member on your side of the aisle and  up for final passage but clearly gasoline prices gasoline energy independence which is a critical component of why we are in the position of having to pay such high prices because we don't have great alternatives to getting more efficient automobiles using alternative energy sources providing for renewable fuels as you know i think you and i i know you and i were both down when  the the debate today i thought was important and you know in the certainly the numbers you cited about what's happened in the last seven years i don't don't fault those numbers at all but we took a lot of responsibility for all of that we were in the majority and i haven't seen anything coming from this majority that would have that would have stopped that one dollar increase we've  seen since the majority change i just hope we can work together to do that and some of it shorter term rather than longer are long term energy needs are clearly going to be met with some long term solutions but things that encourage more production here more and better use of the fuel sources we have as we develop alternatives i think are part of that solution and i hope that the energy and commerce committee and the transportation  encouraged by both sides of the aisle to get some legislation to the floor that would let us deal with that and i hope that happens sooner rather than later actually the debate today may have only maybe related more to the committee than it did the bill but i thought it was  that the american people want to see is have on the floor of the house and i'd you go back for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania right now one minute devise nixon i remarks without objection thank you madam speaker i rise today to honor the one hundredth anniversary  under this leadership morris black continued to develop and in one thousand nine hundred three became one of the first companies in the nation to incorporate an insulation sub contracting business a third generation the lack family became associated with a company in the one nine hundred seventy s when maurice black and sons entered a period of rapid change in the mid seventy's seventy's the company saw a growing interest in do it yourself remodeling and design the do it yourself trend on the horizon mars black and suns open one of the first home design centers that marketed building products directly to active homeowners in  eighty six over time the company's continued to expand opening its first satellite location in one thousand nine hundred nine a second in two thousand has developed a strong reputation for quality throughout eastern pennsylvania this saturday this saturday the family marks its one hundred month i have long been a supporter of israel and i am proud of the strong bonds that unite israel with our own nation not only is israel one of our foremost allies in the current fight against terrorism but they have been a long partner in peace in commerce and in the values of liberty israel like america rose to prominence through the hard work of immigrants and israel remains the best model of democracy religious freedom and peaceful coexistence in a very hostile location in the world the contributions of israel israeli ingenuity and israeli technology are making an impact in the middle east and throughout the world and today with iran threatening to destroy israel and developing nuclear technology symbolistic mill missile technologies it's more important than ever that people of goodwill jews christians and of all faiths rise up in support of israel and acknowledge israel's coming sixtieth birthday general david petraeus and ambassador ryan crocker presented their reports to congress their testimonies were professional fact driven accounts and i am extremely grateful for their service during the hearing i summarized al  outlined his plan for iraq the first stage expel the americans from iraq the second stage as stablish authority in iraq the third stage extend the jihad wave to the secular nations neighboring iraq and the fourth stage the clash with israel and extermination of the people of israel and best of cracow acknowledge these goals but said al qaida may not follow this timeline they may try to attack america as soon as possible the ambassador also agreed al qaida would not be satisfied with simply the destruction of the people of israel we should remember what is that stake in iraq a failed iraq a failure in iraq a defeat at the hands of these extremist would mean a failed state a breeding ground for extremist it is the scenario we saw in afghanistan prior to nine eleven in conclusion god bless our troops and will never forget september eleven the chair in the stands at the previous unanimous consent request the gentleman from maryland related to april sixteenth not april sixth for what purposes the gentleman from nebraska writes without objection thank you madam speaker i rise today to call in the house of representatives to pass a permanent research and development tax credit we are the strongest nation on earth in large part because of the innovation inspired to research and development throughout our history america has led the way thanks to our innovators and entrepreneurs their contributions to our society have led us to a new era but we cannot rest on these laurels even now people in nebraska and throughout our country are looking beyond the horizon for new ways to strengthen and grow our small rural communities we owe it to them to do everything in our power to foster these new ideas we live in a world with unlimited innovation and i look forward to seeing what the future will bring from further research and development i urge the house leadership to bring h r twenty one thirty eight the investment in america act to the floor as soon as possible thank you  for what purpose does the gentleman from idaho rise one minute without objection i mean a speaker continuing on with the remarks just made many us companies are making plans on where they will spend their research and development budgets for the next three to five years a fortune with this congress has made it increasingly difficult for these companies to invest those are indeed dollars with the kind of careful planning their needs demand high tech companies are sending their r and d jobs abroad to countries that recognize that permanent r and d tax incentives induce businesses to locate recession research activities there canada provides a twenty percent flat credit for r and d ireland offers a twenty percent credit as well as a full deduction a low corporate tax rate advanced infrastructure and a skilled english speaking workforce all factors that appeal to many multinational companies manage speak of these jobs and overseas are permanently lost when a company starts a new r and d project we the jews of palestine be back five invading arab armies to win a miraculous victory thus a two thousand year old dream of reestablishing a state in the jewish ancestral homeland was realized since then israel has wrought out a barren desert and swamp a vibrant  state it is harness its ingenuity to join the world's ranks of leaders in science technology and cancer research is a remains a vital ally in the globe's most dangerous region and in a post nine eleven world it is encouraging reminder that a democratic state can maintain its humane principles in the face of unrelenting terrorism so today as hamas rockets continue to rain on israeli communities and former u s presidents are used by hamas as props in a propaganda war in this congress stand a are there for their one minutes their in extraneous material mr poe april seventeenth for five minutes mr jones april seventeenth for five minutes mr brown today for five minutes mr pence today for five minutes mr wells today for five minutes and mr price today for five minutes policy of january eighteenth two thousand and seven and the door previous sort of the house the following members are recognized for five minutes each ms woolsey from california and i'm speaker a gentleman is recognized for five a speaker yesterday as a member of the foreign affairs committee i participated in one of the patrol yes crocker hearings sadly it was just more of the same we heard double talk and nuanced excuses the american people and the congress demand more this is not the punchline on some late night comedy news show this is the blood and treasure of our nation and now the administration has its hand out for another blank check over one billion dollars rumor has it this congress should remain firm in its opposition to an open ended  is neither making america safer nor providing any real hope for the iraqi people just a few months ago man a speaker our esteemed appropriations chairman mr ovi introduced and this house passed a bill that clearly stated the position of a majority of americans with bipartisan support the bill stated and i quote the primary purpose of funds made available by this act should be that to transition the mission of united states armed forces in iraq and undertake their redeployment and not to extend or prolong the war unquote align it's been drawn in the sand the bar was raise and we will not step back from this from so called blue states to red states from east coast to west from the deep south to the mid west on to the great plains states people are fed up reaffirm our support of the iraqi people by funding reconstruction and reconciliation efforts our assistance should come through diplomacy actually through a handshake not at the point of a gun what is the best way to help the iraqi people by occupying their land or by lending a hand as i've said many many times i represent the most beautiful most progressive congressional district every day my constituents make me proud to represent such amazing people my own community has collected supplies for the troops has donated to aid agencies and has gone the extra distance by giving straight from the heart one such example is dominican university in marin county they've offered free schooling to iraqi refugees as part of the iraqi student project they will receive waiver it may not seem like much to some but i can tell you this generous gift will change lives our communities can make these small but priceless gestures but the real work lies here under the dome we have the support of the american people the iraqis and the world community we can't wait until next year we can't wait until the next decade or the next century so as the spending bill comes together americans want to know that their voices are being heard and most importantly heeded we must stand strong we must steal our spines in november the house of representatives said that the primary purpose of all those federal dollars was a safe and orderly redeployment the administration disagreed saying it won't back down we will see consider spending over one billion dollars on the iraq occupation in the coming weeks madam speaker i for one welcome the debate i yield back mr   tireless volunteerism the conservation champion award is but the most recent in a long list of honors that up and start up on his for his philanthropic activities throughout his life played has been at the forefront of the conservation movement recently played his wife modesta granted one of the largest conservation easements in texas history sixty thousand acres spread across two ranches by doing so they have set aside this land from future development at a preserve the land's unspoiled character picture vistas and natural habitat forever mr speaker i congratulate clay today in my words a record in the russian record it is my wish that this small statement about his service will last as long as the gift he has given texas i hope that in the distant future we are long when we are all long passed away someone finds these words and realizes that there were not always of movement there was not always a movement to preserve open space and that there was not always sixty thousand acres in southwest texas kept as pristine as they were one hundred years ago the gift play has given the people of texas will last as long as our union we should remember this man of extraordinary vision and foresight for as least that long there is leadership at actions the state of texas indeed all of america is more conscious of its natural heritage more thoughtful of the land of which we live and more interested in preserving all for the coming to all of it for the coming generations when i have my constituents in eleventh district of texas i would express my clayton his wife modesta for his lifetime of generosity and to correct congratulate him on the receipt of the conservation champion award and  today for the first time in four decades the house of representatives stood up against yet another bad trade agreement our trade policy is creating a crisis it's eroding the incomes of the middle class we're losing our men factoring base in this country we're borrowing two billion dollars a day from overseas making us vulnerable to countries like china and others who do not have our best interests in mind as they amount huge piles of our of our dollars because of the trade deficit now that the all the pointy headed economists out there they've got a theory i studied economics t is when your dollar or your currency declines at some point you kind of get to a point where your idled capacity ramps up your goods become less expensive and the world begins to buy your goods and your trade deficit goes away i confronted an economist over that vision a couple of years ago and i said well it says that was an interesting theory you know fifty years ago maybe it even works but what i said to him was what happens to the country that doesn't make anything anymore doesn't that mean in fact as your currency drops you're still addicted to buying the goods made overseas or you're just not going to have those goods because you don't make them in the u anymore there is no idle capacity to ramp up our companies have wholesale exported their manufacturing capacity to mexico and china in the chase for ever cheaper more exploitable labor around the world which has been encourage our trade agreements every other nation on earth as a trade policy to take care of the people of their own country united states of america has a trade policy to take care of the corporate elite in the united states of america and to the heck with the rest of the country or even our national security so why do i come to the floor today to talk about this two things one is because we've finally stood up against the free trade agreement and the fast track you know gimmick that has g m to those things through time and time and time again president to go shaded in secret new congress you can't mess that up why will lose respect around the world you just got to take it you can't amend it we'll fix that later later never comes but the second reason i come to the floor is because today to the great surprise of those pointy headed economists our trade deficit got bigger even though we're in a recession and the dollar is dropping like a rock toward the value of a rupee which it will soon achieve if we don't do something to turn the tide so our trade deficit grew five point seven percent to sixty two point three billion dollars we could be headed for a record trade deficit now why is that because those same goods that we don't make here anymore are more expensive now because we're still buying them with  depreciated dollar course the nightmare scenario is the day when oil becomes denominated in somebody else's currency and countries refuse to take our currency and refuse to continue to lend us two billion dollars a day and that reckoning da reckoning may not be far off it's time for a new trade policy in america one that brings and keeps high value jobs here at home and gives us a future as a great power and a manufacturing power not is about the end of the fourth working day of the week for the house we've just completed less than two full days of work but if you stretch it it's really a little over two where's the house now they've gone home where was the house on monday home now that's important because there are important things to do at home but madam speaker it's important to appreciate that there are major issues that the american people are demanding that congress address we heard about one of them this afternoon gas prices gas prices significantly increase over the last twelve to fifteen months and this congress has done nothing except raise taxes on american oil producers but the reason that i want to bring focus to the issue of congress going home is  are now fifty five days into a unilateral disarmament for our nation that's right madam speaker fifty five days ago this house the leadership in this house chose to allow some amendments to the foreign intelligence surveillance act to expire and one of those amendments to those amendments which were adopted shortly after nine eleven allow allowed to e d past tense allowed our intelligence community to listen or surveil or intercept phone or electronic communication between that a speaker between a foreign individual in a foreign land talking or communicating to a foreign individual in a foreign land that's right madam speaker if a if an individual who wishes to do our nation harm is speaking to another individual who wishes to do our us harm up until fifty five days ago we had an opportunity in this nation to determine to listen to know what kind of communication that was but fifty five days ago this leadership in this house chose to let that expire now why did they choose to let that expire well what they believe is that american trial lawyers ought to have the ability to sue communications companies who share that information with the united states government with our intelligence community the folks trying to keep us safe than a speaker back in my district in six district or george of the people don't understand the kind of leadership would have the mentality to not allow our intelligence community to listen to a potential terrorist talking to another potential terrorist outside the united states not to an american but to somebody who is not an american citizen consequently than a speaker we are now utilizing the same rules that we had in fact in effect on september tenth two thousand and one man speaking here a lot of talk about crisis across this nation and our friends on the other side of the aisle talk about the crisis in this in the crisis and that i'll tell you what we've got a crisis of in this congress madam speaker that's a crisis of irresponsibility a crisis  irresponsibility and a leadership that refuses to allow this congress to do its number one job which is to protect our citizens and our constituents that are speaker i call on the speaker and i call on the majority leader and i call on the majority party in the house of representatives to bring the protect america act to the floor it's a bill that has bipartisan support a majority of individuals in the house have said they will support it it would pass if it were brought up today but what were we talking about today bills that didn't have to do with the security of the united states i urge the speaker and the majority leader to bring that bill to the floor allow it to pass as it has in the senate in a bipartisan way so that we can return home and tell our constituents that we acted positively to assist in protecting them and their families minutes without objection the gentleman acknowledge for five minutes thank you madam speaker that is weaker some in the most radical elements of the pro illegal immigration groups advocate something called  or that is to say they want to have that part of the united states that was ceded to the united states by the treaty of guadalupe hidalgo they want to have it voided and that either that chunk of america returned to mexico or become a separate nation i mean it's pretty bizarre but that's what they they push for sometimes i hear some of the things said and and especially about people some of the things said by some of the officials in san francisco and i would suggest that if they would agree if the advocates for this  that to take san francisco first i might be sympathetic to their particular point of view because some of the things that are done some of the statements are made are quite bizarre to say the least and would indicate a lack of willingness on the part of its citizens or at least expressed by some of its public officials a lack of willingness to adhere to the laws of this united states of america the san francisco chronicle reported recently that mayor gavin newsom announced a new initiative advertising his city a sanctuary for illegal aliens according to this report san francisco plans to spend eighty three thousand dollars to print brochures in half dozen languages reassuring illegal aliens that they are welcome to stay and access public services he went on to declare that we don't care what your status is we want you to participate in the life of our city it goes without saying that this is dangerous policy and it makes no sense in the post nine eleven environment it's also a flagrant violation of federal law in one thousand nine hundred six congress passed and president clinton signed immigration enforcement legislation making policies like san francisco's that provide sank to illegal aliens and potential terrorists by refusing to report them to federal authorities making them that action illegal as i say but unfortunately for america the bush administration doesn't seem to care dozens of major cities have been inactive these kinds of reckless policies barring law enforcement personnel from corporate with to cooperate excuse me from cooperation with federal immigration enforcement efforts and with disastrous results i might add and denver a sanctuary city a police officer was shot and killed in the second officer critically wounded on mother's day of two thousand and five by an illegal alien who was later arrested he'd been stopped twice for driving without a license had appeared in municipal court twice in april less than one month before the shooting the man was in court with a mexican driver's license yet no one asked him about his immigration status because of denver's sanctuary city policy if the perpetrator had been deported in april that police officer might still be alive this tragic case is just one example and there are countless others these policies are responsible for thousands of major crimes around our country and could have been prevented these irresponsible city leaders gamble not only with the safety of their own residents but there with the residents of neighboring communities and the entire united states as well madam speaker the american people have demanded an end to these dangerous policies and congress has responded by passing legislation to outlaw them so the question is will president bush allow this rogue mayor to put the rest of the country at risk really finally live up to his oath of office and enforce the law i yield back the balance of my time mr miller of california mr mchenry of north carolina for what cherished the values and principles that america represents those values are increasingly threatened today by an erosion of one of the primary bonds that keeps us together a common language large scale legal and illegal immigration threads the societal cohesion and america's shared values when arrivals are unwilling to learn english the current policies of our federal government actually enable this roge and when it provides official documents in multiple languages this eliminates any incentive to learn english america's genius is a melting pot nation is has always been promoted by assimilation took common language and that language is english today i'm introducing legislation that declares a english to be the official language of the united states government under the english is the official language act of two thousand and eight no person has an entitlement to receive federal documents and services in languages other than english unless required by law if the u s government is generous generous enough to make an exception the exception does not create a legal entitlement or precedent to additional services in any other language other than english this essential legislation will significantly reduce cost of federal government and will encourage new legal immigrants to quickly adopt america's native tongue learning english has always been and will continue to be a key step in achieving the american dream applaud my fellow colleague on critically important issue making english the official language of our great land is not just about preserving our culture and heritage learning english is an essential step fired nation's newest potential citizens that they must take if they want to achieve the american dream a plead with my colleagues to strengthen america by supporting english as the official language act of two thousand and  describing the slave trade william wilberforce concluded telling his colleagues this he said having heard all of this you may choose to look the other way but you can never again say you did not know not one member of the hundred tenth congress can say they do not know about the nation's long term financial outlook with former comptroller general david walker said will result in a tsunami of spending and debt that could swap the ship of state according to the government accountability office america's five point three trillion dollars deep in publicly held debt and has estimated fifty four point three trillion in unfunded promised benefits that we don't change our char trillions with a t the social security medicare trustees report recently issued only reinforces the dire condition of our fiscal health the medicare trustees report concluded that consideration of reforms to ensure a financial security medicare must to care stating the sooner the solutions are enacted the more flexible and gradual they can be the social security port echoes this sense of urgency saying the projected trust fund deficit should be addressed in a timely manner making adjustments sooner well out of be spread over more generations and if those dark projections are not enough to raise the warning flags couple of those with the fact that the value of the dollar is falling through the floor what more evidence do we need to realize that our children and grandchildren cannot afford to have their leaders choose to look the other way i was so disappointed that treasury secretary paulson's focus is not on this issue i told him today when he testified before the state and foreign operations appropriations subcommittee that i believe he is one of most qualified treasury secretaries our nation has said he has a brilliant mind but his attention isn't on the most fundamental of al issues the economic future of america i was also disappointed that he didn't answer my question about the projections credible rating agency such as moody's investment service a making of a day that the usa chip away bond rating being held by maya mcguinness in the committee for responsible federal budget and they've done a great job it was such a diverse group from the business finance and policy communities former c b s directors former o m b directors think tanks political views across the spectrum the herd foundation the brookings institution included almost everyone expressed concern about the entire in the crisis we are facing this is not only an economic issue it is also a generational and a moral issue you may have re peterson's editorial newsweek this week he ended by courting digit by an offer the german pastor who was instrumental in the resistance movement against fasces germany he said quote the ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that leads to its children i cannot help but wonder what sort of future today's partisan washington is leaving to generations to come if we can come together both sides of the aisle we can assure that our children and our grandchildren have all the opportunity that you and i have had jim cooper and are working together on the cooper was state commission was over eighty bipartisan co sponsors if anyone has another viable plan to address their entitle we're anxious to hear it but we cannot continue the status quo doing nothing is not acceptable wilberforce's admonition rings as true today as it did in seventeen eighty nine having heard all this you may choose to look the other way but you can never again say that you do not know we know and it's on our watch let's fix it for you back down to my time five purposes the gentleman from arizona wri that object settlements recognized for five minutes thank you madam speaker better speaker i stand once again before this house with yet another sunset memorial it is april tenth two thousand and eight in the land of the free in the home of the brave and before the sun set today  america almost four thousand more defenseless unborn children were killed by abortion on demand is just today madam speaker and that's more than the number of innocent lives lost on september eleventh in this country only it happens every day it has now been exactly twelve thousand eight hundred and sixty two days since the tragedy called roe versus wade was first handed down since then the very foundation of this nation has been stained by the blood of almost fifty million of its own children some of the madam speaker died and screamed as they as they did so but because it was an yannick fluid passing over the vocal chords instead of air no one could hear them and all of them had at least four things in common first they reached this little babies who had done nothing wrong to anyone and each one of them died a nameless and lonely death and each one of their mothers whether she realizes it or not will never be quite the same and all the gifts that these children might have brought to humanity are now lost forever yet even in the glare of such tragedy this generation still clings to a blind invincible ignorance while history repeats itself and our own silent genocide mercilessly annihilates the most helpless of all victims those yet unborn madam speaker perhaps it's time for those of us in this chamber to remind ourselves of why we are really  here thomas jefferson said the care of human life and its happiness and not its destruction is the chief and only object of good government the phrase in the fourteenth amendment capsulizes our entire constitution it says no state shall deprive any person of life liberty or do proper life life liberty or property without due process of law madam speaker protecting the lives of our innocent citizens and their constitutional rights is why we are all here the bedrock foundation of this republic is the clarion declaration of the self evident truth that all human beings are created equal and endowed by their creators with the as their creator with the invisible that with the  of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness every conflict and battle our nation has ever faced can be traced to our commitment to this core self evident truth it has made us the beacon of hope for the entire world madam speaker it is who we are and yet today another day has passed and we in this body have failed again to honor that foundational commitment we have failed our sworn oath in our god given responsibility as we broke faith with nearly four thousand more innocent american babies who died today without the protection we should have given and it seems to said to me madam speaker that this sunset memorial may be the only acknowledgment or remembrances these children who died today and so as a small gesture i would ask those in the chamber who are inclined to join me for a moment of silent memorial to these lost little americans to speak or let me conclude in the hope that perhaps someone new who heard this sunset memorial today tonight will finally embrace the truth that abortion really does kill little babies that hurts mothers in ways that we can never express and it twelve thousand eight hundred sixty two days spent killing nearly fifty million and more and children in america is enough and that the america that rejected human slavery and marched into europe to arrest the nazi holocaust is still courageous and compassionate enough to find a better way for mothers and their unborn babies than abortion on demand such a night madam speaker may we each remind ourselves that our own days in this sunshine of life are also numbered and that all too soon each one of us will walk from these chambers for the very last time and if it should be that this congress is allowed to convene on yet another day to come may that be the day when we finally hear the cries of innocent unborn children may that be the day when we find the humanity the courage and the will to embrace together our human and our constitutional duty to protect these the least of our tiny little american brothers and sisters from this murderous scourge upon our nation called abortion on demand is april tenth two thousand and eight twelve hundred twelve thousand eight hundred sixty two days since roe versus wade first thing the foundation of this nation with the blood of its own children this in the land of the free and the home of the brave thank you ma'am speaker under the speaker's announced policy of january eighteenth two thousand and seven the gentleman from maryland mr bartlett is recognized for sixty minutes as sixty minutes as the designee of the minority leader as speaker i believe that this is the forty first time that i've come to the floor since three years ago the fourteenth day of march to talk about the energy pacifically about oil is a copy of the washington times today the main headline global food riots turn deadly and then if i turn to the front page profiling what's inside business gas hits record the upward trend in energy prices showed no sign of abating yesterday as the gasoline set another record at the  crude oil topped one hundred and twelve dollars a barrel for the first time i'm in the futures market if i go back to the lead article it says clashes likely to  prices and or over spiraling war world food prices is becoming increasingly violent world food prices have risen forty five percent this is a quote from the head of the rome based u n food and agriculture organization world food prices have risen forty five percent in the last nine months and there are serious shortages serious shortages of rice wheat and corn un secretary general ban ki moon issued a personal appeal for calm in haiti yesterday at least five people have been reported killed in disturbance and since last week after the cost of rice doubled and gas prices rose a third time since february this could have been predicted twenty eight years ago i'll explain in a few moments why i used twenty eight years ago it was an absolute certainty that at some point in time roughly this time that we would be here talking about this crisis this first chart is an interesting one the motorist is looking at today three dollars and thirty some cents a gallon for gasoline is this just why is gas so expensive he has a tiny little supply there and a huge big demand in his s u v and madam speaker that's why gas prices are high there is more demand for gas than there is gas available and the marketplace the mans that the price of gasoline go up this saga started fifty two years ago eighth day of march in san antonio texas when what i believe will be recognized shortly as the most important speech given in the last century was delivered to a group of oil scientists and engineers and executives and san antonio texas the next chart shows the prediction that thousand nine hundred and fifty six by m king hubbert who was this oil geologist he was talking to a group of people representing the country our country which was then king of oil producing more oil consuming more oil exporting more oil than any other country in the world and he told them that in just fourteen years no matter what we did before after that that oil production would reach a maximum in our country and after that it would go down down down what he said was and disbelieved but fourteen years later in one thousand nine hundred seventy right on schedule we peak oil production and this is a chart which shows that peaking at shows texas producing the third or so of the oil at that time and the rest of the united states natural gas liquids added to that and then it shows the enormous discovery of oil in alaska and i've been there to  that horse and i have seen the beginning of that four foot pipeline through which for a number of years now a full fourth of our domestic production of oil has flowed that is now tapering off the yellow discovery and alaska he had not included alaska and the gulf of mexico in his prediction it was just the lower forty eight and notice there's hardly a ripple from those famed discoveries in the gulf of mexico the next chart shows another depiction of the hover teak and i show this one because this is used by a group of sera cambridge energy research associates to try and convince you that you should not be alarmed by m king hubbard's prediction that the world would be doing now about the same thing the united states did in one hundred seventy because he was wrong about the united states in one nine hundred seventy they said you see his prediction of what the production of oil would be are these yellow triangles and the actual production where the green square is and he messed up well maybe a statistician could give you an analysis which is say he missed that but i think to the average citizen those two curves look pretty darn similar don't i think the average  say gee i think he probably got it we did peak in one thousand nine hundred seventy and in spite of what we've done then in the lower forty eight we pretty much followed that her and then this is a read now that includes the total production which includes now and the next chart is a very insightful one if you had only one chart to use to discuss this subject this would be the chart that you would use it shows the discoveries of oil we discovered a whole lot of it back in the forty's i can remember those times very well my first car was a thirty six ford made just ten years after i was born then lots of discoveries in one thousand nine hundred fifty and sixty's and seven and notice what's happened seventy's eighty's ninety's two thousand down down down in discovery and that's in spite of everything for better techniques for finding oil three d seismic and computer modeling and boy we've mapped the world and we know pretty much where oil is likely to be f because it's found in only very unique geological formations and we know what they are at we know where they likely exist now the solid black line here is our  consumption of oil and it's also our production because we haven't been storing huge amounts of it anywhere we have a small strategic reserve in our country small in terms of the oil that we use in a year really small so we are storing it anywhere so what we have consumed is what we've produced and you showed see that that shows an ever increasing slope here up through the carter years every day cade we use as much oil as we had used in all of previous history now i want you to reflect on that for just a moment what that meant was of course if we had kept on that trend when we had used half of the world's oil and it is finite when we use half of the world's oil we would have just ten years of oil left at that rate of usage now in one thousand seventies late seventy's we had the oil price spike heights as a result of the arab oil embargoes and that caused a worldwide recession you see here that the use of oil actually dropped off it caused a worldwide recession and boy we woke up we said gee we can get things done more efficiently and so now with  increasing economy greatly increased economy we are now using oil and everlast increasing right this slope it's very much less than the slope and that reflects the increased efficiencies that we have built in your air conditioner today it's maybe three times as efficient as it was in the seventy's your refrigerator is two or three times if it as efficient as it was  notice that ever since what eighty two or so we have been using more oil than we've found and we were able to do that because we had these huge reserves back here so what we've been doing ever since the early eighty's is dipping into these reserves and using some of this oil that we found and didn't need because the area under this curve represents the oil that we have used and obviously if you add up all these bars it represents the oil we found that you could put a curve for those and the area under that curve would then represent the oil that we found so we now have use this area here in terms of our reserves and we used about this much reserves probably so we have a whole bunch left so what will the future look like now emptying hover predicted that the world would be reaching its maximum oil production about now and this what about two hundred eight two hundred ten that shows that peaking now you can within limits make the future look reasonably whatever what you want to look but you cannot pump what is not there if you really aggressive and build a whole lot of wells and flood them with live steam and pump c o two down there and flood that was sea waters which is what they do in saudi arabia you can get the oil out quicker but what you use now will not be there to use tomorrow how much more will we find well they have shown of smoothes discovery curve getting ever less and less it won't be smooth like that but it will be up and down but i if i was drawing a line and projecting it out i would have drawn it quite that high and i don't think that you would either got somewhere below that i think that's maybe an optimistic assessment of what we will find in the future if we have discovered in the past is any measure of what we will discover in the future the next chart is a chart which i'm king however it anticipated this is an interesting one because it is represents data from the two best organizations in the world for tracking the production and consumption of oil because as i said before we use what we've found pretty quickly all across the ocean refine it and use it this is the e a the energy the information administration a part of our department of energy and the i e e a the international energy association that when most people are familiar with because el baradei is the head of that and they've been kind of monitoring what's going on in iran and you see them frequently in the newspaper notice that for the last three years roughly that show for duction of oil constant they've been at several appeals you read about them in the newspapers saudi arabia opec won't you please produce some more oil what opec says is we think we're producing enough oil i think that the correct answer really is we can't produce oil any faster than we're producing it i think that they have probably reached their maximum for  the production of oil the little blue line here shows what's happened to prices and notice in the last year or so what's happened the price pop up the first time i came to the floor here as i said was a bit more than three years ago an oil was what fifty couple dollars a barrel now today it was a hundred and twelve dollars a barrel the production of oil has been one constant they demand for oil has gone up that's really simple relationship when there the demand for a product is greater than the supply of the product people bit it up it's like at an auction two or three people want something is only one of the thing they want and they bid it up to ridiculously high levels and that's what's happening with oil to get it you've got to outbid the other guy and so now it's one hundred and twelve dollars a barrel the next chart schematic chart and it shows the same curve we've been looking at and by the way it's obvious that we can make this curve really sharp by simply expanding the  here it's spread out but in any event this follows a roughly two percent increase in use that doesn't sound like much does it as a matter of fact our stock market gets really jittery when our growth is only two percent it's going to have to get over that madame speaker because we can't continue two percent growth forever with two percent growth it doubles in thirty five years it's four times bigger and seventy years it's eight times bigger and one hundred five years and it's sixteen times bigger and one hundred and forty years now when you're only perspective is the next quarterly report or getting yourself through the next election this two percent growth which is one hundred forty years from now will be sixteen times bigger make whatever is growing at two percent sixteen times bigger may not seem very important to you but you know i've got ten kids and sixteen grandkids and two great grandkids and i'd sure like them to live in a world as comfortable as the world i live in and to have the opportunities that i've had th yellow here represents a growing gap if in fact we are at this point and the charge that we have just seen would indicate that we probably are then the increasing demand is going to result in a deficit which will be reflected in the higher oil prices and higher gas prices at the the big focus that most people are talking about the gee how are we going to fill that gap let me suggest madam speaker that we're not going to fill that gap there are no readily available substitutes for oil out there some a little of this a little that if you some them all up they are still far short of the amount of oil that we're now using now we're going to continue to have oil we're not running out of oil but what we're doing is running out of our ability to produce oil as fast as we would like to use it that will be all and gas and coal around for another hundred fifty years ever less and less harder and harder to get at higher and higher costs the next chart really a quote from what i think will shortly be recognized perhaps as the most insightful speech given in the last century given fifty one years ago the fourteenth day of this may hyman rickover the father of our nuclear submarine gave this speech to a group of physicians in st paul minnesota but you can find that it's a link on our website to it or you can simply do a google search for rick over an energy speech and it will it will pop up a really insightful speech in the eight thousand years of the getting of history to the year two thousand id world population will have grown from ten million to four billion he kind of miss that world population is about seven billion people now with ninety percent of that growth taking place during the last five percent of that period with way more than ninety percent king place during the last five percent of that period in four hundred years it took the first three thousand years of recorded history to accomplish the first doubling of population one hundred years from the last doubling but the next doubling will require only fifty years the matter of fact required considerably less than fifty years the next chart is not a chart of population growth but it could just as well have been this is a chart showing the increase in energy availability our consumption of energy and if i superimpose on th chart of population growth it would follow this almost exactly our world population has grown from half a billion or so to seven billion people and most of it is hyman rickover pointed in the last little while and look i don't go eight thousand years i go back only four hundred years if i went back the rest of the eight thousand years it would still be pretty much down near zero the industrial revolution began with wood and then we found coal and boy did it take off when we found times before but it looks different depending upon the scale that you have in the in the or in that and the have system the next chart is some data and hyman rickover speech and it would be even more so today with high energy consumption goes a high standard of living he said thus the enormous fossil fuel which we in this country control feeds machines which make each of us a master of an army of mechanical slaves this was fifty one years ago what he said then is true even more so today he said that we represent i've seen data little more than this roughly thirty five watts elected i get sleeping and waking sitting here talking here i'm more like a seventy what ball that's not very much is it a matter of fact if you look at the amount of food which you eat in a day and if you dried it and if you burned it made a fire of it it would hardly warm your fingers on a cold day just look at the sea ration that our military uses and how compact there are you put some water in them they swell up they look like a lot but the actual dry material there is not much fact fifty one years ago he said that the household appliances that made life so comfortable for the family represented the work output of thirty three men he said the machines which make our cars and refrigerators and so forth represent two hundred and forty four men two thousand min push your automobile down the road that's the the energy it takes to move your car down the road is the energy of two thousand men working one hundred thousand men push the locomotive down the road and seven hundred thousand and then push the jet plane to the sky when i first saw the data that said that one barrel of oil represented twenty five thousand man hours of effort the work output of twelve people working all year i said to myself gee that can't be but then i thought i have a prius car about the first one in congress and the first one in maryland and a gallon of gasoline still cheaper than water in the grocery store by the way  it in a little bottles a thought how far that gallon of gasoline takes my car and how long it would take me to pull it those forty seven miles that a gallon a gallon of gasoline takes my car and i said gee it's probably true that one barrel of oil represents a work output of twelve people working all year now where the beneficiaries of  have an incredible quality of life which is the result of the direct result of our access to all of this energy the next chart isn't another quote from hyman rickover whether this golden age and it is a golden age knoebels of old live nowhere near as well as we live today the poorest in our country maybe not quite so to another country's live better than that the nobles of yesteryear because of the incredible access that we have to this energy whether this golden age will continue depends entirely upon our ability to keep energy supplies in balance with the needs of our growing population that we haven't done that or we wouldn't have headlines like this today global food riots turn deadly in a few moments i will discuss the relationship between these global food riots and this other headline gas hits a record possession of surplus energy is of course a requisite for any kind of civilization for if man possesses merely the energy of his own muscles he must expend all his strength mental and physical to obtain the bare necessities of life this article and food notes that and much of the third world fifty to sixty percent of the income of the family goes to food you know what that is in our country it's less than ten percent food doubling in price in our country doesn't mean much but if you're pay fifty percent of your income to buy food  doubles in price and it takes one hundred percent of your income to buy that food so it really really is important to the poor of the world a reduction in a per capita energy consumption as always in the past led to a decline in civilization and a revers a more primitive way of life the next is another quote from hyman rickover by the way madam speaker i'm going through these quotes and then i'm going to use quotes from four studies that our government is paid for our taxpayers money and then ignored what i'm going to be asking is with this history with this great speech given by hyman rickover fifty one years ago with the warnings and these four studies released over the last several years why are we hearing more about a meaningful program to address this energy challenge that we face there  nothing man can do to rebuild exhausted fossil fuels reserve they were created by solar energy a long time ago he says five hundred million years ago it took eons to grow to their present volume and the face of the basic fact that fossil fuel reserves are finite great state just reflect on this the exact length of time these reserves will last is important only one respect that he didn't know how long they were going to last because he didn't know how long this golden age would ask last but we now know pretty much it will be madam speaker about three hundred years long where about one hundred fifty years into it we're now at the pinnacle of the golden age would be in another hundred fifty years as these fossil fuels become less and less available at higher and higher cost the exact length of time the church will last is important only one respect the longer they last the more time that we have to invent ways of living offering new will or substitute energy sources and to adjust our economy to the vast changes which we can expect from such a ship fifty one years ago really prophetic madam speaker with this kind of insightful advice fifty one years ago what headlines like this in the paper with these four reports paid for by our government why haven't we done something why aren't we doing something fossil fuels resemble capital in the bank i love this statement a prudent and responsible parent will use his capital sparingly in order to pass on to his children as much as possible  inheritance a selfish and irresponsible parent will squander it in riotous living and care not one whit how his offspring will fare with the shortages in oil which is driven up the price of gasoline they want me to vote to drill in anwar and offshore i've got ten kids sixteen grandkids and two great grandkids and i asked them if you could drill anwar tomorrow what would you do the day after tomorrow and there will be a day after tomorrow we're leaving our kids a horrendous debt growing by leaps and bounds not with my vote if you will check the record but relieving them that debt and i ask those who would like me to vote to drill in anwar and offshore wouldn't it be nice if i left my kids and my grandkids and my great grandkids a little energy to deal with this horrendous debt the next was a quote also from hyman rickover you can see why i believe that this will shortly be recognized as perhaps the most insightful speech given in the last century i suggest this is a good time to think soberly about our responsibility to our descendants wow fifty one years ago and there ferry few who are thinking soberly at all about this today i suggest is that good time to think soberly about our responsibilities to our descendants those who will wring out the fossil fuel if we must give a break to these youngsters by cutting fuel and metal consumption while fifty one years ago and what we've done since then with no more responsibility than the kids who found the cookie jar or the hog who found the feed room door open we've just been taken out on energy as if it were for ever as if there was an endless supply that is obviously finite the moon isn't made out of green cheese in the earth isn't made out of oil i see chairs and trees and grass and sticks and stones out there obviously it isn't all and it's not going to last for forever so it's a provide a safer margin for the necessary adjustments which eventually will be made and they world without fossil fuel a year ago christmas new years bright letter codell of nine to china to talk about energy they began their discussion of energy by talking about post all in an environment where it's hard for us to see beyond the next quarterly report card the next election they're looking generations and centuries down the road there will be a post oil world that's not going to totally post oil for about another hundred fifty years but increasingly they're going to be less and less higher and higher cost more and more difficult to get the next chart just kind of a repeat of the wise advice he's been giving high energy consumption has always been a prerequisite of political power ultimately the nation which controls the largest energy resources will become dominant i'm going to show a chart a little later that shows that china is buying up energy oil all over the world they kind of understand that if we act wisely and in time to conserve what we have and prepare well for necessary future changes which will ensure this dominant position for our own country i'll show a chart in a few moments that shows that we have two percent of the oil we use twenty five percent of the world's oil and import almost two thirds of what we use but don't even come close to following the wise advice that he gave fifty one years ago now for studies and here they are  h report february oh five this is a big study done by s a i c science applications international corporation big prestigious international corporation paid for by our department of  energy here's a second report paid for by the u s army corps of engineers paid for by the army done by the corps energy trends and their implications for u s army installations it could have been us or world because our army is a microcosm of the united states and the world then a second hurts report peaking of world oil production recent forecasts and then the last third of these reports which your government has asked for and paid for by the fact this when i asked for as a senior member of the science committee this is done by g a o crude oil uncertainty about future oil supply makes it important to develop a strategy for addressing a peak and decline and oil production where have you heard anybody talking about this strategy where have you read about this strategy in the newspaper this is g a o report february of zero seven hard truths the last of the studies hard truths facing the hard truths about energy comprehensive view to twenty thirty a global oil and natural gas bundle done by the national petroleum council now i have quotes from all but the last of these going over the information that's been available to all of us to our leaders and i'm going to keep asking the questions how come it's been ignored report world oil peaking is going to happen well production of conventional oil will reach a maximum and decline thereafter that maximum is called the peak a number of confident forecasters project thinking within a decade this was several years ago but others contend it will occur later prediction of the peaking is extremely difficult that you will only know its peak when you look back and you see gee it was the highest back then was and is now less matter what we do we can get more so you will know that it is peaked only in retrospect when you look back to see that it has the oil peaking presents a unique challenge the world has never faced a problem like this there is no precedent in history to guide you there is nothing that has happened in the past which will help you through this the world has never faced a problem like this without massive mitigation more than a decade before the fact the char earlier remember he i a i a three years flat looks like we've peaked now doesn't it he says without massive mitigation more than a decade before the fact the problem will pervasive and will not be temporary previous energy transitions with the cold and cold oil were gradual and evolutionary oil peaking will be abrupt and revolutionary the next chart  from this report the peaking of world oil production presents the us and the world with an unprecedented rich risk management problem the world has never faced a problem like this as taking his approach volatility will increase dramatically hundred twelve dollars a barrel and without timely mitigation the economic social and political costs will be unprecedented food riots people killed well we'll talk in just a few moments about the relationship between oil and food so that you'll see why the crisis in energy is reflected in this crisis in food availability the next chart is another one from the hirsch report we cannot conceive of any affordable government sponsored crash program to it accelerate normal replacement schedules this is going to be a new world we're going to have to think differently we've got to use energy differently as far as fossil fuels is concerned i think the harsh report is exactly right i'm a lot more sand when about electricity more nuclear wind solar with the procrit storage for those two because they're intermittent with more hydro true geothermal we can in some parts of our country tap the molten core of the earth as they do for all of their energy and ice and i think we can make reasonably is much electricity as we ought to be using and not at all sure that that's true about about liquid fuels the substitutes for all are just few and difficult as we will see the next chart is an interesting one from from the her study most of the world's experts believe that we have found about two trillion barrels of recoverable oil there's a lot more out there but it's locked and tiny little droplets in between grains of sand and shale and so forth and with present technology we're likely not going to get it and the cost of ever getting it makes the to its value when you get it in so it's maybe not practically recoverable well uh there are some people believe that we're going to find as much more oil as all the reserves that we now know exist and this is an interesting chart because instead of talking about roughly two trillion barrels are talking about three trillion barrels of oil and even if that's true which is the same card we saw before remember the stutter in the seventy's with the worldwide recession slower growth now taking now if we don't find any more but they say if we found as much more next big energy force in the world he says the most powerful force in the world is the power of compound interest compound growth poorly understood but that's what we're seeing here so if we found which we're not going vanishingly small possibility we're going to do that but if we found as much more oil as all the oil which now is known to be recoverable it would push the peak out only to twenty sixteen and  this what would happen if you use heroic techniques that enhanced oil recovery and get it out of the ground quicker then you fall off a cliff but you can't pump what you have not found the next chart is and it's an interesting chart that shows the projections of our cia the energy information administration and i don't have time to go into the strange use of statistics here but somehow they went from a frequen disagreeing is where we were going with the discovery of oil and this is the ninety five percent probability this is the five percent probability and as one would expect ninety five percent is more probable than fifty percent so the actual discoveries and re here have been covering have been following the ninety five percent probability so i would be very suspicious of projections using u s g s data which is where this comes from of future oil production the next chart addresses this and this is a lot rare one of the world's giants in this area says the u s g s estimate implies a five fold increase in discovery and reserve edition for which no evidence is presented such an improvement in performance is in fact utterly implausible given the great technological achievements of the industry over the past twenty years the world wide search and the deliberate efforts to find the largest remaining prospects i think he's right i think there is little probability that we're going to find huge amounts of additional matter fact most of the world's expert it's believed that we probably found about ninety five percent of all that we will ever find in the next chart and that now we have a series of charts and we will go through quickly from the corps of engineers the study this is the second one done oh it's the most important form of energy in the world today historically no other energy source equals oil's intrinsic qualities of extract ability transportability versatility and cost is incredible the energy density of oil and all the things that you can do with it we live in a plastic world a huge petrochemical industry all of that starts with gas and oil and some coal because once you have this long hydro carbon chain whether it's gas or coal or oil you can the chemist can do it about what he what he wishes the qualities that enabled oil to take over from coal as a front line energy source for the industrialized world in the middle of the twentieth century are as relevant today as they were then the next chart is a really interesting one this is a study done by very knowledgeable people the current price of oil is in the forty five to fifty seven dollars for darrell per barrel range and it's expected to stay and that range for several years one hundred twelve dollars a barrel today looking back that emptying however it was right about one hundred seventy we did peak in one thousand seventy one hundred seventy nine he made the prediction the world will be peaking about nine let me ask you that i'm speaker if anything ever it was right about the united states and if in spite of drilling more oil wells and all the rest of the world put together why should we not be concerned about his prediction that the world would be peaking in oil about now don't you think that someone might as that g m can have it was right about the united states isn't the united states a microcosm the world might be right about the world and shouldn't we be doing something about that oil prices may go significantly higher they have indeed and some of predicted prices ranging up to one hundred eighty dollars a barrel in a few years goldman sachs says it or it may very well be one hundred  fifty to two hundred dollars a barrel by the end of this year the next chart another one from the corps of engineers for joy an expert call and campbell jane was a rare brian freely roger richard duncan walter youngest and albert bartlett no relative of mine i wish i had some of these genes his given his speech on energy i think over sixteen hundred times do a google search for albert bartlett in energy it will be the most interesting one hour lecture you have ever listened to using various mythologies have all estimated that a peak in conventional oil production will occur around twenty five it's funny zero eight i think it probably has occurred the corporate executive officers these several companies also published estimates of a peak in two thousand and five and the next chart from the g a o and now we move to the third of the study jael studies that shows this large number of  experts of sources and when they thought peak would occur now some of them are pretty indecisive it could be now it could be a long long time from now but notice that a great many of them thought that would be occurring about now there's a general consensus and this was published to three years ago general consensus that peaking would be occurring about now another chart from g a o and this kind of puts things in perspective the little bar on the right shows the top ten or well and gas companies on the basis of oil reserves who has the oil and ninety eight percent of that is resident and countries where the oil is owned by the country lukoil which is kind of not owned by the government represents only two percent of the left and this is the top ten again oral and gas companies on the basis of production this is how much they have this is how much they produce the giants that you really read about every day making forty billion dollars a year profits by the way that's not their fault it's not because they're gouging you it's not because they're schemers it's simply there simply have the recipients of a windfall that results when you want to use more oil than there is and that drives the prices up i wouldn't be critical of the profits i would really be critical if they don't use a prop the profits properly are giants exxon mobil royal dutch b p have only twenty produce only twenty two percent of the world's oil and seventy eight percent of the world's oil i saudi arabia and opec and the remainder and the next chart now i like this one because if a picture's worth a thousand words this is worth a few thousand words that shows you the same thing as those last of couple of charts but it's just dramatic on the shows what the world would look like if the size of the country was relative to how much oil it had to look at saudi arabia and it's the landscape and indeed in the oil world it dominates the landscape it has twenty two percent of all the known reserves of oil in the world little kuwait saddam hussein thought it looked like a little corner province in iraq iran first second third fourth northern africa our neighbor to the south venezuela hugo chavez doorstops what three four five times as much oil here we are the united states using a fourth of all the oil in the world and we have two percent of the known reserves of oil in the world and the two countries from which we get most oil that changed a couple of days ago by the way it used to be canada and then mexico i think it's canada saudi arabia and then mexico now that's caused this world's second largest oil field the cancer out oil field and mexico is in rapid decline so they cannot produce at the rates they produced before what kind of keep this map in your mind look at china and india over there because they are look at russia about that huge compared to china and india china and india together have no more oil than we and they have like a third of the world's population rapidly growing demand for oil and some parts of beijing bicycles are now banned there isn't room for them on the roads because there are so many automobiles there the next chart simply shows some numbers that i've been using two percent of the world's reserves consume twenty five percent of the world's oil import almost two thirds of what we use less than five percent of the world's population one person and twenty t produce eight percent of the world's oil from only two percent what that means is we're pumping our wells four times faster than the average right so we know if only two percent of the reserves were pumping them down really fast we're really good at that we have more oil wells i mentioned that all the rest of the world put together of the next chart is a really interesting one that shows what china has been doing there going around the world you see the big symbols there for china going around the world and buying oil unocal in our country they're buying oil everywhere but in today's economy that doesn't make much sense because whoever has the dollars gets the oil so why are they buying oil at the same time they're buying oil that is because they're also aggressively building the largest blue water navy in the world might the time come that the chinese tell us gee i'm sorry the oil is ours we have a billion three hundred million people they got to have oil i'm sorry we can't share it if they're going to make that a reality they have to have a navy big enough to control the world's shipping lanes talking about  geopolitical consequences a statement by our secretary of state condoleezza rice we do have to do something about the energy problem but this was osu six years ago what have we done about the energy problem in the last two years we do have to do something about the energy problem i can tell you that nothing has really taken the impact more as secretary of state than the way that the politics of energy is i will use the word warping diplomacy around the world we have simply got to do something about the war thing now diplomatic effort by the all out rush for energy supply she recognizes that two years ago this month what have you seen your country doing about that in the last two years why this gross denial i think the evidence is clear to of the two a third grader the next chart very recent one january twenty two of this year by the year twenty one hundred the world's energy system will be radically different from today the world's current predicament limits our maneuvering room we're experiencing a step change in the growth rate of energy demand and shale estimates that after twenty fifteen supplies of easy to access oil and gas will no longer keep up with demand it may be sooner than that but that's not very far away as a result society has no choice but to add other sources of energy and we have only a few minutes remaining and that's what the next chart up and this chart addresses some of those other sources of energy i will tell you madam speaker that we are very much like the young couple whose grandparents have died and left them a big inheritance and then i have established a lavish lifestyle where eighty five percent of all the money they spend comes from their grandparents inheritance and only the fifteen percent of that money are they are now and they look at how old they are and the size of the inheritance and it's going to run out long before they retire so obviously they've got to do something they either have to earn more or spend less and that's precisely where we are with energy because eighty five percent of the energy that we are using coal petroleum and natural gas comes from fossil fuels and the grandparents inheritance it's finite it will run out if only fifteen percent of that is from other sources generally referred to as renewable sources and a bit more than half of that comes from nuclear we produce eight percent of our total energy from nuclear that's twenty cent of our electricity we have the largest nuclear electricity production in the world but not the biggest  percentage france produces about seventy five eighty percent of their electricity from from from nuclear and then the seven percent now this is two thousand things have changed a little since then for solar one percent wind one percent that's point zero seven percent so it's increased fourfold point two eight percent big deal point two eight percent one fourth of one percent we have a long long way and i'm a big fan of nuclear i heinie contributors to our total energy supply that's not the the mountain family that's the paper industry and the timber industry wisely using a waste product waste that looks huge and that's not a bad idea to turn your waste into electricity you can do that have a great plant up here and northern my gum or a county but that way strain is not a solution to our problem because what that way stream represents just go to the county dump look at it what that weight stream represents is a problem get use of fossil fuels and a fossil fuel deficient world it's not going to be there it's an expedient for the moment it doesn't even come close to offering a rational solution to our to our problem conventional hydro we've probably peaked out in conventional hydro we can do a lot of micro hydro there's some really good micro turbans now alcohol let me come back now we have a couple of minutes remaining and i want to make the tie between our food problems and the gas prices i have a program of converting corn to ethanol national academy of sciences says it will use all of our corn for  ol all of it and discounted for fossil fuel input it would displace two point four percent of our gasoline they said if you tuned up your car and put air in the tires you would say that's much now our farmers because corn doubled in price because we were doing that they diverted land from soybeans and wheat to corn so now we doubled the price of corn doubled the price of roughly doubled the price of soybeans and wheat and since these commodities move together the price of  rice has doubled and so now we have global food riots turn deadly what one u n official said was that what we did innocently we just haven't thought it through that what we did was a crime against humanity  trifling contribution to displacing oil has doubled the price of corn nearly doubled the price of soybeans and wheat and rice and there are people who spends fifty to sixty percent of their income on food if the food price doubles or spending a hundred percent of their income on food no wonder they're rioting well this was an unintended consequence of the last chart we have only a couple of minutes remaining and i just want to say that that i find this challenge really exhilarating there's no exhilaration like the exhilaration of meeting in overcoming a big challenge where the most creative innovative society in the world where up to this madam speaker with proper leadership looking for that leadership we're up to this we need a program that has a total commitment of world war two i lived through that war i know what it was everybody raised a victory garden no cars made in forty three forty four and forty five we need the technology focus of putting a man on the moon and we need the urgency of the manhattan project we can the world and moving from fossil fuel dependency to renewables we're creative and innovative we need leadership to do this this last chart let me put one other one up i just want not that the last what you have there but i just want to show you that we can do it we can live very happily on last here we are using more energy than anybody else in the world but there are twenty four countries using considerably less energy than what you feel better this is how good you feel about your station in life who feel better about their station in life than we and the very last one of the few seconds remaining and this shows you that californians  only about sixty five percent as much electricity as the rest of us in the united states challenge any californian to admit that they live less well than we live we don't have to use the amount of energy that we're using today to be comfortable to feel good about like i really feel challenged by this we're the most creative innovative society in the world we can do this we can once again become a manufacturing country we can lead the world in this madam speaker i find it right maybe two years old my next birthday and there's nothing in my life and i've seen more of life than every other member of this congress except ralph hall who is three years older than i and i've seen nothing in my life that so challenging so exhilarating as this we're up to this we need that leadership for what purpose does the gentleman from maryland wri