Senate Proceeding on Jul 24th, 2008 :: 0:38:27 to 0:43:12
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Jon Kyl: assistant majority leader. mr. durbin: mr. president, the motto of the republicans in the senate is talk more, produce less. you know what we offered them this week? we said to the republicans,

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Richard Durbin: here's the opportunity of a lifetime. do you have a position on speculation? do you think it's an issue? if you do, put your proposal on the floor, and we'll put our proposal on the floor. we'll have

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Speech By: Richard Durbin

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Richard Durbin: an equal vote requirement, equal debate time. we'll go at it, and we'll let the senate decide. we're not going to write your version of the speculation bill. you won't write ours, but you have every

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Richard Durbin: right to do that. and the republican response was, no, we're not interested in that. we don't think speculation is ape problem. well, they ought to meet with the c.e.o.'s of the major airlines

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Richard Durbin: and spend a minute talking to them about what they feel because they're paying the jet fuel cost and cutting back on service and cutting back on employment, and that is the reality of what they

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Richard Durbin: face today. speculation, manipulation is a major concern. we have a responsible approach to it. the republicans refuse to offer an alternative. okay, that's their decision. then we said to them,

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Richard Durbin: why don't you present y pour energy bill. the republican leader comes to the floor with a litany of things that t the republicans believe in. for over aer week we have said to them put it on a bill

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Richard Durbin: offered on the floor. they said, no, we'd rather come to the floor and complain rather than come to the floor and debate our approach. eup listened to the republican leader as he comes to the floor,

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Richard Durbin: and it's very clear to me they don't want a debate and a vote. they want this issue to drag out tprefrp and ever. amen. that's not what the american people want. they want us to tackle this thing, offer

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Richard Durbin: alternatives on the floor, debate them up or down, go forward. it troubles me when the republican leaderpu repeatedly says incorrectly says that when it comes to energy from the democratic view, we want

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Richard Durbin: to deal with speculation. and in his words -- quote -- "do nothing else. he forgets the whole second part of this. the energy bill that we are proposing on the democrat side an they're going to propose

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Richard Durbin: on the republican side; we offered them that. they turned us down. i might also say there's no idea how many amendments the republicans are going to offer. two days arcs senator kyl and i were on the

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Richard Durbin: floor. he said there were 25 amendments. senator specter said i have two. he said make that 27. he said come to think of it i have one too. that makes it 28. this is growing like bacteria in a petri

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Richard Durbin: dish. as the republicans meet in their conference and dream up more amendments. well, that's good. it shows a creative mind at work, and that's a great exercise. but it isn't what the american people

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Richard Durbin: are asking for. if you've got a good set of ideas, offer them. you want to bring up more nuclear power, senator domenici, put that in your package. you want to have more offshore drling? dr put it

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Richard Durbin: in your package. you want to have coal to oil? put it in your package. if you believe in it as republicans, stand up and fight for it. but they t won't. they want to run. run to the press and complain

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Richard Durbin: they're not being given enough time on the floor. if they could have more time as days burn off the calendar, as they stand and complain. they can't come up with a plan, and that's the unfortunate

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Richard Durbin: reality. and then to quo t. boone pickens, mr. pickens, i'm sure is a gifted man. i've never met him. i've seen him on tv. he spent a lot of money to make sure we all get to see him. they have misquoted

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Richard Durbin: him on the floor sovereign. i watched that ad he's paying ph-lgs of dollars for america to see. you remember the part of the ad where he says we can't drill our way out of problem, quote,, unquote?

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Richard Durbin: you don't hear that on the republican side. they forget the t reality. all the oil in the world, if you look at the vast quantit we have 3% of it under our control. 3%. we use 25% of the oil. you can't

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Richard Durbin: drill your way out of it. we know that we're going to need exploration and production, p but we know we need a lot more. conservation, renewables, sustainable energy sources, that's the reality of what

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Richard Durbin: we face. we made this offer to them time and again. they won't accept it. they'd rather come to the floor and complain. when you go through the list of drilling offshore, democrats support that. 34 million

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Richard Durbin: acres currently under lease to oil companies pore drilling they're not using. this don't they start drilling there since they paid for this land. oil shale, that's in our bill. we want to take a

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Richard Durbin: look at oil shale as an opportunity. incentives for batteries, of course we support that. there is no debate there. untapped american oil? we think there is untapped american oil in alaska. 23 million

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acres worth the oil companies ar en't touching. they should go in there, take a look and drill for it. nuclear energy? i don't understand how senator mcconnell can say we can bring gasoline prices down