June 13, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H3141 not have food and then walk off and have higher expectations, to name a them every day and we do not give leave them with their stomach grum- few. We have more children showing up them the resources to help those that bling. It is another thing to help. at the schoolhouse door today who do have the greatest need, they are not I do not know that building schools not speak the language of the school likely to improve a whole lot. We need is exactly like that, but I truly believe system than ever in history, but if we to be able to put the resources there to that if we do the things for children, will do a few things we can help those get the job done. Tough reform without we have quality facilities, good teach- children. They will be capable. They real resources will be nothing but a ers, a good environment for them to will be prosperous. They will be our cruel hoax on our children. Reform learn, reach out to their parents and next generation of doctors, lawyers and without resources will condemn an en- invite them to be part of the edu- teachers. We have to give them an op- tire generation of American children to cational establishment, schools will be portunity. Education is the key to op- failure at a critical time in our Na- better, educational attainment will in- portunity. Education is the door tion’s history by frittering away an un- crease and America will be a better through which all of us walk into the precedented budget surplus. place in the future, and our democracy middle class. We do not get there with- b 1915 will stand for a long, long time. out it. If we do not, as our Founding Fathers The days are gone when you can be a In North Carolina, when we started challenged us long ago, we have a de- dropout and become a millionaire, but doing our assessment program, we put mocracy but we are the only ones who you can do it with education. That is resources in to help those children who can determine whether it will last. I still the American dream. were not up to scale. We put in summer really believe that we have it within Before we put new requirements on school so they can go back and catch our destiny. our schools and on our children, the up so they do not get failed, because Finally, Mr. Speaker, I want to offer schools are not going to be able to once a child fails and he fails to pass a my views on reform of Federal support meet those strident new standards if grade, the likelihood of that youngster for kindergarten through 12th grade we fail to provide the resources that dropping out increases dramatically. It education. As I said at the outset, I they are going to need to achieve those is important that we do the things that spent a number of years, and as I told goals. It is one thing to say jump and need to be done. my colleagues when I came here, as the then you put a millstone around their We know what needs to be done. We only chief in this body, former chief. I feet. It is another thing to give them may not know everything that works, do not know that I have all the answers wings. I am very concerned that we but we can find the best ideas and put but I know some of the things we ought may not put the resources behind it. them in there. not be doing and sometimes we do Congress may fail to do that. If we Madam Speaker, we have a chance some things on this floor that I know do, we will pay a heavy price. The re- before this Congress adjourns this year we should not be doing. I believe I have sources that we are going to need to in- to get this discharge petition before a little different perspective as we look vest in better schools can only come this body, to vote on it, send it to the at it than others in this town about from the budget we have. The Bush Senate, let them vote on it, and I have what it takes to improve schools for budget request provides the smallest every belief that they will pass it, and our children, and my State has repeat- educational increase in percentage send it to the President for his signa- edly been cited as a model for reform terms in 6 years, in 6 years. In fact, the ture. It will make a difference in the by everyone from the Bush White final budget that we passed eliminates quality of schools in America and the House to Democratic leaders in the all the education funding that the Sen- modernization and the technology that Congress, to the nonpartisan Rand Cor- ate Democrats added and cuts edu- is needed; but more importantly, it will poration that has done a number of cation funding even below what the make a difference in the lives of chil- studies in education across America. President’s budget had requested, $1 dren in America. H.R. 1 as passed by this House may billion less than the President’s budget f prove to be a decent education reform. this year, and $20 billion less over the REASONABLE SOLUTIONS BY REA- I sure hope it does. There are some next 10 years. SONABLE PEOPLE REGARDING things in it that I would not have put Now, that does not sound like folks THE UNITED STATES ENERGY in it, I would have written differently, who are really committed to improving SITUATION but I voted for this bipartisan bill be- education in this country. I cannot cause I support the concept of greater imagine this body saying we are going The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. accountability with greater resources to improve our military and scale up to HART). Under the Speaker’s announced to get the job done. meet the needs of the 21st century and policy of January 3, 2001, the gen- Let me say again so no one misunder- the challenges around the world but we tleman from Colorado (Mr. MCINNIS) is stands, one cannot, one will not, im- are going to give you $20 billion less recognized for 60 minutes. prove schools and education on the money. That is not going to happen. Mr. MCINNIS. Madam Speaker, this cheap. In the 1980s, we decided we were To do it to our teachers and to our evening I want to talk about the en- going to rearm the military and the children is akin to being sinful. If we ergy situation that we have in the last time I checked we spent hundred are to realize our potential as a coun- United States. Really, the theory of of billions of dollars and we won the try, we absolutely must reverse this my discussion this evening is about Cold War. We did not win it on the course and rededicate ourselves to real reasonable solutions by reasonable peo- cheap. It will not even take that kind education reform. We must provide the ple. of money to turn education around. tools to get the job done. If you are We have heard on this floor for any I get amused when people talk about going to dig a hole, you give somebody number of weeks now constant attacks how much we are spending, and we do either a shovel or you give them a tool against the administration, constant spend quite a bit, but the truth is at to dig a hole with. If you are going to attacks against the U.S. Congress, con- the Federal level in most cases it is dig a big enough one, you may want a stant attacks on why this energy crisis less than 7 percent of all the money piece of power equipment. But if we are has come about, but we are real short going to education. If one goes back to going to raise the bar on every child in on hearing much about solutions. the 1960s, when we really increased in America, and I happen to believe we This evening I want to talk a little science and math education, when can and should, we need to make sure about, number one, just how wide- Sputnik went up we were spending that they are strong enough to jump spread especially the electrical short- closer to 12, 15 percent, depending on over that bar. age is in this country. I want to give which system you were in. It reminds me of something one of my own predictions on where I think So we have gone backwards. Our my farmer friends told me one time. He we are going to be in a year or two in schools today face daunting challenges, said, if all you do to a pig is weigh him regard to the electrical generation among them record enrollments, run- every day and you do not feed him he shortage we have in this country; and I down facilities, incredible diverse bod- is not likely to get much bigger. Well, will visit a little about California, ies with special needs. And, yes, we if all we do to young people is we test which seems to be the State, frankly,

VerDate 13-JUN-2001 02:21 Jun 14, 2001 Jkt 089060 PO 00000 Frm 00065 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K13JN7.156 pfrm01 PsN: H13PT1 H3142 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE June 13, 2001 that did the least amount of planning believe that anything that California providers could charge to consumers and is in the most amount of trouble. needed in the way of a new power while doing nothing to discourage de- There is a correlation between not source, that they could either get it mand. much planning and lots of trouble. We from renewables, alternatives, or con- You know, this is a misconception will discuss a little of that this servation. that deregulation, true deregulation, evening. Now, most of my discussion this actually took place in California. True, We will talk shortly about New York evening is going to be about conserva- they called it deregulation, they gave State and the other 48 States and what tion. Conservation is a very, very, very it the label of deregulation, but what the other 48 States have done and what important factor in helping California California did was not true deregula- kind of a situation we are in. and helping the entire Nation. One, use tion. What California did in their State I want to start at the very beginning our energy more efficiently; and, two, was they allowed the electrical utility of my remarks by saying that I do not make sure that the other 40 States companies to sell their generation fa- have an anti-California bias. I know avert an energy crisis. cilities to an outside party, and then, some of my colleagues are upset, and I But we have to be realistic, and I am retaining oversight on the utility com- think that there is some justification afraid that some of this realism never panies, the State of California prohib- to these people being upset, with the really existed or it was ignored in Cali- ited the utility companies from raising situation in the State of California. fornia, the realism that you cannot get their prices on the consumer in the But there are a lot of us on the Repub- yourself out of this energy shortage by State of California. lican side, and I am sure on the Demo- conservation alone. By not raising your prices to the con- cratic side, outside of the State of Cali- I note that the Vice President has sumer, it is very similar to renting. If fornia, who live outside the State of been criticized on numerous occasions you are a landlord renting an apart- California, who happen to believe that because the Vice President stood up ment to a tenant and you pay for the we need to help California; that Cali- and said exactly that; that, look, no utilities, what happens in that kind of fornia, while it primarily got itself matter how hard we believe in con- case? What will happen is you will go into this mess on its own, it cannot get servation, no matter how much we ex- see the people that are renting from itself out of this mess entirely on its ercise, we still need to come up with you, if you are paying their utilities, in own, although, frankly, California is additional power generation. We still the summer their air conditioner will going to have to put its boots on by need to take into consideration that be at 50, and in the winter they will pulling itself up by its own bootstraps. this Nation is becoming more and more have the windows of the apartment So there is a lot of responsibility that and more dependent on foreign nations open trying to get rid of all the heat falls on California. for our oil resources. they are generating in the house be- But we have got to remember that So as the Vice President agrees and cause they have the thermostat turned California is the sixth most powerful as I strongly advocate, as do most rea- up to 80 or 90 degrees. economic factor in the world. Not in sonable people, it is some kind of com- It does not work. Economically it the United States; it is not the sixth bination of answers that will help the does not work. Allowing a price freeze most powerful economic State in the State of California out of its energy for consumers instead of a price that United States. If it were a country of crisis; that that combination would reflects what the markets demand, you its own, it would be the sixth most contain conservation; that that com- create an artificial floor. You do not powerful country in the world from an bination would contain other types of have to walk very far on that artificial economic point of view. alternative energy; that that combina- floor if you do not have supports for it Frankly, what is bad for California is tion would contain exploration of fur- before somewhere you are going to fall bad for the United States when it ther oil resources; that that combina- through. That is what happened, be- comes to economies. California pro- tion would contain additional elec- cause California did not have true de- duces a tremendous amount of our ag- trical generation. That is how we are regulation. ricultural products, the foods that you going to get an answer for our col- Let us go on. No new coal-fired power buy at the grocery store. So we are de- leagues, for our fellow State, the State permits in the last 10 years. I am a lit- pendent on California, and California is of California. tle discouraged to see that just in the dependent on us. This is a union, you Now, remember, in the last 8 years last few days, number one, the State of know, the United States of America, so there has not been the approval for a California has panicked and is now pro- when one State generally gets in trou- natural gas transmission line. I am not ceeding through their Governor Davis, ble, the other States feel the impact; talking about the natural gas line that who has attacked almost everyone else, and in my opinion, the other States goes from Main Street into your House. the blame game, blame it on them, have an obligation to step up to the I am talking about a major trans- blame it on them, blame it on them, plate to help their colleague. mission line, to move the natural gas but never point a finger at the political But that does not mean that as you from one location to another location. leaders in California, the State polit- step up to the plate to help a fellow I can tell you that it seems to me ical leaders, never point a finger at the State you ignore how you got there in that every time there was an effort at Governor of California. Point them at the first place, or that you take some putting in some type of project, wheth- everybody else. of the more radical positions, or that er it was natural gas transmission The difficulty is that now in the last you accept some of the radical ideals of lines, whether it was electrical genera- few days we have seen some pretty rash how to approach this. It all comes tion, all you continued to see was that reactions by the political leaders with- back, in my opinion, to a reasonable nothing would work; no generation in the State of California. The first approach by reasonable people. plant in California would satisfy the thing, the Governor apparently, and Let me talk just very briefly here people near it; no gas transmission line this is what I read from the media, I about the California energy crisis. I through California would work. In fact, obviously have not had a conversation have a number of charts this evening. I every single project, to the best of my with the Governor, but the Governor think, colleagues, they will help me knowledge, in the last 8 or 10 years in apparently has now agreed to sign walk through my points with you. California involving nuclear energy, in- long-term contracts for electrical gen- Let us take a look at the State of volving electrical generation, involving eration. Long-term contracts. California. First of all, remember that natural gas transmission, every one of You know where that electrical price in California, this is a State where pre- them was aggressively opposed, as if it is today, folks? Do you know where dominantly you saw, and I know this would bring an end to society as we that price is? You are at the top of the may ruffle some feathers, but the fact know it if we dared build that type of market. You are at the top of the mar- is you predominantly saw in that State project. That is one of the reasons that ket in what you are paying for elec- an attitude of ‘‘do not build it in my our fellow colleagues in California are tricity. Now is not the time to sign backyard.’’ We predominantly saw an in this kind of shape. long-term contracts to buy that power, attitude in the State of California Let us look at the second point, place but the Governor of California has de- where the political leaders seemed to price caps on the rate that electrical cided that it is.

VerDate 13-JUN-2001 02:21 Jun 14, 2001 Jkt 089060 PO 00000 Frm 00066 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K13JN7.158 pfrm01 PsN: H13PT1 June 13, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H3143 I will point out here just exactly how There is give and take in everything gathered of other people’s for conserva- many power generation facilities we we do. We cannot possibly live on this tion are conservation without pain. have coming online in this next year. Earth without taking something from Does it sound too good to be true? It In this next year we will have three the environment. We have to eat, sleep, is not. It is just some simple, common- generation plants a week coming on- et cetera. sense ideas about conservation that line throughout the rest of the Nation. The same thing in California, but will reduce the demand, which, by the Believe it or not, it is my prediction now the give and take is kind of out of way, in the long run will also reduce that in the next year to year and a proportion because, in California, they the price, and also, it is good policy not half, maybe 2 years at the outmost, we did not plan. They did not say, all to waste energy. are going to have an electrical glut. We right, we may not like electrical gen- Let us go on. I just mentioned how are going to have more electricity in eration plants, we may not like coal- ironic it is that the State of California this country than we know what to do burning plants, we may not like trans- really has its biggest problem. The with. mission lines, those big towers with dark days are ahead in California. Now, We may have trouble with trans- those big wires that are kind of ugly. remember that California is an im- mission, and, again, looking at the We may not like to even begin a discus- porter. They are bringing in electricity State of California, ask California sion on nuclear energy, but the fact is, because they cannot, under the regular when is the last time they allowed a we have to do some planning. course of events, under a regular major transmission line to go through That is what is missing from the course of events, generate enough elec- their state. You can generate all the California solution, from the California tricity to supply their State. electricity you want, but if you cannot deregulation effort. Now we see not a The same thing, by the way, in the move it from point A to point B, and discussion, a good, thorough discussion United States. Under a regular course sometimes that point from A to B is a by reasonable people about, what do we of events, this Nation has become more and more dependent on foreign coun- long distance, the electricity does not do on deregulation so it does not repeat tries across the oceans to answer our do you much good, because, you see, itself. Instead, what we are seeing pri- needs because, in large part, we have once you generate electricity, as we all marily from the elected State officials there in California, primarily the Gov- not had exploration. know, you cannot put it in a little bot- Let us take a look at the United ernor of California, we are seeing the tle; or, like a bag of potato chips, eat States. We are going to find out that blame game: ‘‘It is your fault. It is half the bag and wrap it up and eat the the Governor of California, by the way, your fault. It is your fault.’’ rest of the bag the next day. You can- has taken great delight in criticizing Come on. We have to come up with a not do that with electricity, and time Texas simply because, in my opinion, solution here. Let us look at a couple you do not generate is time lost. So I he wants to run for President in 2 of other things. actually think that we are going to years, and the President happens to be One is, no inland refineries have been have an electrical surplus. from Texas. built in 26 years. California’s power ca- But California’s responsibility is to But if we put the political biases help itself, and we have a responsibility pacity is down 2 percent since 1990, aside, the problem that Texas has is to help California. I do not think we while demand is up 11 percent in that Texas frankly has done good planning. should continued to heap on California, same time period. That is a collision. It has plenty of power for its State. continue to bash California, but I think That is a collision waiting to happen. The difficulty is Texas, which really we should be willing enough, all of us, They drop capacity down at the same has surplus power, they, in other to say where are the shortfalls? What time they bring demand up and they words, are on the another end of Cali- do we need to do to help our col- are going to have a collision. That is fornia, and they have power they can leagues? what has occurred in California. export out of their State, but they do Let us go on. Let me say that the Governor of Cali- not have the transmission lines, for ex- fornia speaks as if all of the States in b 1930 ample, to take much power into the the Union are in this kind of problem. eastern grid or into the western grid. I Now let me say that on the coal- I have to tell the Members, there is a think that is going to be resolved pret- fired, as I started to say, the coal-fired reason that California stands alone in ty soon, because then Texas can help plant permits, another thing that has this energy crisis. There is a reason other States. discouraged me in the last few days, that California is in worse shape than New York City has been unable to which is caused by panic and by poor everybody else. It is not because they generate enough energy for its demand. planning, I understand now in Cali- got the bad draw out of the hat. It is They had blackouts, as we remember, fornia the Governor has lifted restric- not because they happened to be in the in 1965 and in 1977. But they are in the tions on some of the dirtiest or most wrong place at the wrong time. It is be- process of allowing facilities to be built polluting electrical generation plants cause they put themselves there. in New York. They are not a State that in the State for special hours when There are a lot of States in this has refused to allow electrical genera- they run short of electricity. Union who have said, we may not like tion to be built in their State for 10 What brought that about? A short- it in our backyard, we may not like years. They are trying to keep up with age. But what brought about the short- electrical transmission lines, we may demand, and they are being more ag- age? The fact that it now has Cali- not want to see a generation facility, gressive about it as we speak. fornia reducing or diluting their tight but the fact is for our citizens in this New York, my guess is this summer standards for pollution, it is because particular State we need to plan for New York blackouts will be at a min- they have refused to approve anything. our future energy needs. Now, that in- imum because New York is racing to Nothing satisfied the regulators out cludes, by the way, conservation. come up with a solution, understanding there in California. Nothing satisfied I must say here, Madam Speaker, that conservation alone will not give the people that opposed electrical gen- California has demonstrated a solid them the answer, although conserva- eration plants or electrical trans- move and solid progress towards con- tion is going to be a critical part of the mission lines or natural gas trans- servation. In the last month alone, the solution. mission lines. State of California has dropped their Now, in the Pacific Northwest we Now, as a result, when they get in a energy demands in the electrical mar- have heard about possible power short- crisis in the State, they see the envi- ket as I understand it by 10 percent, ages up in Washington and Oregon. ronment in my opinion kind of taking not because they brought additional These are not because Washington and second seat because they have to have production on, although, as I said, they Oregon have refused to allow genera- that energy. What is going to come are going to have to, but because they tion facilities. These shortages are not first, the environment, or having elec- have begun to conserve. because they are naysayers, because tricity to the local hospital? The envi- We are going to go over some con- they have that NIMBY attitude, not- ronment, or being able to power the re- servation ideas tonight that I think in-my-back-yard attitude. Their prob- fineries so they can continue to will be an easy sell to my colleagues, lem up there in the Northwest is they produce gas? because my ideas and ideas that I have have a drought.

VerDate 13-JUN-2001 02:21 Jun 14, 2001 Jkt 089060 PO 00000 Frm 00067 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K13JN7.160 pfrm01 PsN: H13PT1 H3144 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE June 13, 2001 In fact, that contributes to the prob- eration: ‘‘Not in my backyard. No more (Mr. MCINNIS) telling us to turn off our lem in California, because California is exploration. No electrical generation lights. We know that, it is common dependent upon the hydro power, which plants, no transmission lines.’’ But sense, turn off the lights on the way of course means water, which of course, then the minute they run out of power, out of the room. when we have a drought, we do not they go and blame everyone else. I will make a little confession here: have, out of the Pacific Northwest. We need to avoid that, because we Up to about 3 months ago when I went The Pacific Northwest, primarily the can come up with solutions, all of us to my office the first thing in the Columbia River, which has dried up working together. We have to face the morning, I turned on every light in the fairly dramatically, that is nature, fact that no matter how good a solu- office. I put on the coffee, turned on that is an act of nature. We have to do tion we come up with, we are always the lights. I went to the sink, ran the what we can do to help these States, going to have 10 percent over here on hot water until the water got hot, but I think that will resolve itself. Our this extreme that might, for example, started to put it in the coffee pot. droughts usually come to an end. I say, ‘‘Drill at any expense.’’ That is We do it differently now in my office. think we will see some resolution. crazy. We all cherish our environment Now I do not turn on lights in the of- Now let us look at California. There too much to have that, to buy into fice, all the lights. I turn on the light could be as many as 34 or more black- that. We have 10 percent or 15 percent that I need to read by, but I do not outs in the State of California, al- over here who say, ‘‘Do not drill at all. turn all the lights on until the office though, again to the credit of Cali- We do not need additional power,’’ et personnel shows up, until we actually fornia, because of the conservation cetera, et cetera. need the lights. methods they are now exercising, Cali- But in the middle there is a large If we as a Nation would only turn on fornia may drop that fairly dramati- segment of people who believe, one, in that light switch when we actually cally. California may have less of an conservation, and believe in exercising needed the lights, that would help. energy crisis. They will not eliminate responsibility in their own lifestyles Light we use for security purposes, for it until they accept the fact they have for conservation, while at the same example, we may have a timer that to have additional generation, but I time acknowledging that we have to turns on a bedroom light, especially think they are going to have less of an become less dependent, not more de- while we are away on vacation, or a ga- energy crisis than we thought even just pendent, on foreign countries, and that rage light that a timer turns on at 2 or 2 weeks ago because of the fact that we have to have generation facilities 3 in the morning. Just go up to that the people in California are seriously sometimes within view of our homes, light and replace it with a lower watt- accepting conservation methods. sometimes within view of our commu- age light and we are helping save en- So in California, the primarily prob- nities. Sometimes we have to sacrifice ergy. These are simple ideas that cause lem with California is lack of planning a little of that so we can have the sup- no pain. and lots of pretending, lack of planning ply, the energy supply, that we need. The fact that I go into my office and and lots of pretending. That is what Let us talk about our homes. As we do not turn on all the lights does not has happened in California. They pre- all know, the electricity in a home cause any pain. It helps the situation. tended that they really had deregula- travels through the house in wires. The fact that we use a lower wattage tion. They pretended that they could These wires lead to light switches and say to their citizens, you will never outlets which power the televisions, bulb does not impact the security at have a price increase. We are going to computers, lights, and most everything all. cap it. They pretended that while de- else in our homes. Shut off the TV when nobody is mand for power went up, there was no Think about how dependent we are watching it. Keep the computer in need to provide additional generation on energy. Our heat is dependent on en- sleep mode if we are not using it. Shut to answer that. They pretended that ergy. No matter whether we use nat- off the monitor. Unplug appliances like conservation and alternative energy ural gas or propane, we have to use curling irons and clothing irons right standing alone could meet the addi- electricity. The air cooling, whether it away. Letting them sit while turning tional demands of the citizens of Cali- is refrigerated air or a humidifier type off wastes electricity, and on top of fornia. of air or just simply fans, is dependent that, it is unsafe. That is what has happened. That pre- on electricity. Obviously, the lights, I know the Members are saying, well, tending has created the problem in the security system, is dependent. this is all pretty basic stuff. We have California. But I think we can get it re- When we take a look at our houses, heard this before. The whole reason, solved. I am going to show the Mem- just how dependent are, it is incredible the whole reason that I am visiting bers some other ideas I have. just how much we depend on elec- with the Members this evening is we This cartoon I just saw today in the tricity. Electricity makes our homes have all heard it before, but we have paper. I wanted it made up. The fact is, comfortable to live in. not all used it before. We have not ex- as I have said repeatedly throughout It is not free. Electricity is not free. ercised our responsibilities to help with my comments this evening, reasonable We cannot have electricity brought to conservation. If we are going to get to people can reach reasonable solutions, our homes without some type of sac- the bottom of this problem, we have all but we have to have people who are not rifice. We cannot have electricity in got to pitch in on conservation. hypocritical. We have to have people our homes without some type of im- b 1945 who do not say one thing on one end pact to the environment. and do something else on the other. The key on the impact is that as we Let us continue. Here are a few steps I think this editorial cartoon out of look at the impact, is it a reasonable you can take to immediately, this is the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel impact? Is it a balanced impact? Is it immediately, help this Nation conserve pretty well depicts exactly some of an impact that is sustainable as far as on fuel, on energy. Do not let the hot what has gone on. mitigation to the environment? water run while you are washing your Here we are in a Volkswagen van. It Let us go on. Before electricity gets hands, brushing your teeth, or shaving. has solar power on the roof. It says, to our homes, some type of fuel must I have done that before. I get ready ‘‘Make love, not power plants. Save the be used. It can be coal, it can be nu- to shave. I turn on the hot water, I Earth. No nukes.’’ On the back, it has clear, or even a dam on a river. We give walk over, I get the shaving cream or a California license plate, racing right up certain parts of nature to enjoy something, water is running, and I cas- by the ‘‘last chance’’ energy gas sta- electricity, so we must do our part to ually look in the mirror. You can save tion. Then the cartoon down there conserve electricity. a lot of hot water, plus you can save shows the Volkswagen bug running out For example, if we leave the light on the water. of gas. Now it shows the driver of the in the room after we leave it, we are Water is a little more complicated, bug with a gasoline can in his hand using electricity we do not need. To because it is a renewable resource. But walking back saying, ‘‘It is all Bush’s conserve electricity, shut off lights in the electricity to heat is not renew- fault.’’ rooms we are not using. able, and we can conserve on that. Use That is exactly what we are seeing a Now, that sounds pretty simple. Gee, smaller appliances such as microwaves, lot of out there, people who oppose gen- here is the gentleman from Colorado toaster ovens, and crock pots. Use cold

VerDate 13-JUN-2001 02:21 Jun 14, 2001 Jkt 089060 PO 00000 Frm 00068 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K13JN7.162 pfrm01 PsN: H13PT1 June 13, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H3145 water to operate your garbage disposal, It is a very clever marketing ploy, lions of dollars of taxpayers’ dollars to this saves energy. And, frankly, it and it has worked very successfully. research whether these work or not. helps the unit to dispose of grease more There are hundreds of thousands of We have not had to put taxpayer cred- efficiently. people in this country who religiously its out there, so that you have the Wash your clothes in cold water. If change their oil every 3,000 miles even money and you get credits to use you use ceiling fans, blades should ro- though the owner’s manual says against your taxes to see whether these tate clockwise, keep that in mind, that change it every 5,000 or every 6,000. work or to make them work. in the summer, your ceiling fans have Let us say that if half of those people I can tell you, in my opinion, if the to turn clockwise. Make sure it is turn- that change their oil every 3,000 miles American people would follow the rec- ing clockwise, otherwise it is defeating now do what the owner’s manual tells ommendations I have made this the purpose. them to do and change it every 6,000, evening, we will have made more If it is turning counterclockwise, it look what kind of savings you have. progress towards conservation, in my works to help heat the home. If it Look what you do to demand. Over a opinion, than any of these solar tax turns clockwise, it lifts the cool air up, year period of time, you are talking credits or other tax credits, we have and it helps cool the home, very sim- about, you are talking about millions spent hundreds and hundreds of mil- ple, no pain. It does not cost you any of barrels of oil, millions of barrels of lions of dollars at the Federal level try- more money. It does not require you to oil. ing to find a Federal solution which sacrifice the lifestyle that you have. Yet, if we do this, there is no pain. generally does not work. All it requires you to do is reach up Your car is not going to run any less Let us go on. Conservation. This is and pull the chain, that is all it re- efficient. You are not going to be re- pretty interesting. I did not know this quires, and you can help our Nation stricted from driving anywhere. Life until about 3 weeks ago when I was re- conserve. goes on just as it went on before, ex- searching it. Preheat your oven only Keep doors closed as much as pos- cept now you are helping us reach some when it is necessary to preheat it. Do sible, especially on refrigerators. Do kind of solution. You are a reasonable my colleagues know that foods that not circle a parking lot over and over person coming to a reasonable solu- take over an hour to cook do not re- instead, take the first spot available. tion. You are a contributor to the solu- quire a preheated oven? How many of us do go to Wal-Mart, we tion. In other words, if you have a roast go down to the grocery store and go Let us go on. Make a grocery list and and it is going to take more than an through the parking lot three times or take fewer trips to the store; use public hour to cook it, do not preheat your four times and see if we can find a transportation or ride your bike or oven, it does not do you any good. And parking spot that is 15 feet closer to walk when you can; turn down cooling not only does it not do you any good, if the front door? Take the first available parking spot levels for your refrigerator or freezer; you do not preheat your oven, guess you saw, number one, walk into the keep all exterior doors tightly shut and what happens? You save money. Be- store. It actually helps you get a little avoid frequent in and out traffic; lower cause preheating an oven takes a lot of more exercise, takes off a few calories the temperature of your hot water energy. and you are wasting less energy. For heater to 120 degrees. You actually cut your own electrical somebody that goes down where there This is a pretty interesting one, be- bill. You improve your life-style, be- is parking, having a tough time finding cause a lot of people do not know about cause you bring home more money at parking in shopping centers, over a this. Colleagues, tonight when you go the end of the month. year period of time, you actually would home, take a look at your hot water If your water heater, and this is im- be surprised how much consumption of heater, take a look at the hot water portant, was purchased about 1992, use gasoline you would save by simply tak- tank. a blanket around it. You can buy that ing the first parking spot available. On the bottom of the tank you are blanket at a local convenience store. It Again, back to conservation. Here actually going to see a thermometer probably pays for itself over a 6-month are some others. Now, this is one that and you might find, to your surprise, period of time. After 1992, there is some is really a pet peeve for me. If you take that your thermometer is on high. I question as to whether or not the blan- a look, and I am asking all of my col- can tell you if you think, put your ket is really going to help you with leagues to pay special attention to thermometer on low at about 120 de- your hot water heater. this, because this is a significant con- grees, that water is still too hot for A full refrigerator uses less energy to servation move that we can take that you to stand in; 120 degrees is still too cool. If you have a refrigerator, and is totally and completely painless. hot. you just have a couple of cartons of What am I talking about? Tonight You actually save energy, there is no milk and cheese and maybe 120th of when you go home, colleagues take a reason to heat the water to 190 or high- your refrigerator has food in it, put look at your owner’s manual in your er. Heat it to 120. Move that little some water bottles in there, occupy the car. Go into the glove compartment gauge to lower. And guess what? You space. It actually saves energy, and and pull out the owner’s manual. are one of those reasonable people who you have cold water to drink. Before you look at the owner’s man- help with a reasonable solution that Some of this stuff may sound mun- ual, remember a couple of basic things. has not impacted your life-style one dane. Some of it he just keeps talking Number one, that people who drafted iota. It has not impacted your life- about conservation. He just keeps talk- it, who put that owner’s manual to- style one bit. Very important you are ing about conservation. Every item I gether are the people who designed the part of the team. have told you tonight is something car, the people who tested the car, the Take shorter showers. Now I know I that each and every one of us can uti- people who sell the car. If you look in have that on there. I can tell you it lize. This chart does not belong to one there, go in there and see how often the was snowing in my district. By the class. This chart does not belong that people who know the most about your way, colleagues, as you know, my dis- only one in one State can use it. This car how often they tell you to change trict is the Rocky Mountains of Colo- chart is for another. the oil. rado. We are at the highest elevation in Every chart I have showed you on My guess is that most of you will see the country. And after it snows in the conservation hints or conservation sug- in your owner’s manual that your per- middle of June, you like to go home gestions work no matter where you use sonal car oil only needs to be changed and have a long hot shower. it. It works in California. It works in every 5,000 miles to 7,000 miles. So I do not know, maybe that im- New York. It works in Florida. It Now, take a look at the campaign pacts life-style a little too much, but if works in Montana. that has gone on over the last several it does not impact your life-style, go Conservation, paint and decorate in years. There are a lot of people out ahead and cut down your hot water light colors. Dark colors absorb light. there that want you to believe that if showers. Light colors reflect light. The lighter you do not change your oil every 3,000 Let me tell you just the conservation colors you use the less artificial light- miles, your car motor is going to be ru- elements that we have gone through to ing is required. You think we would all ined. this point. We have not had to use mil- know that. But if you have a room with

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That one is Now, the answer for our automobiles, stead of defrosting it in a microwave maybe kind of a little impractical, but for example, in my opinion, is not to where you use a lot of extra energy. it is not impractical for you to take a eliminate the automobile, we would Place it in the refrigerator 24 hours be- look and see if you really need that re- never do it on a practical aspect, and fore you need it. So tomorrow if you frigerator in the garage. not to make such outrageous demands know that you are going to have, you Let us look here. While on vacation, on the automobile manufacturers that have some frozen burritos in the freez- there are a lots of us colleagues that the automobile they produce cannot go er, instead of 5 minutes after you come are going to be taking vacations this more than 30 miles an hour, cannot go home from work and 10 minutes before year. Here is some ideas, completely up a hill. you have dinner stick it in the micro- painless. It will not affect vacation. I live in the highest mountains of the wave to thaw it out, simply the night Set your air conditioner at 35 degrees United States. We have got to have before, place it in the refrigerator. By at 85 degrees, excuse me, not 35 de- cars that have power. We have to have the time you come back the next day, grees, you get the opposite result, 85 SUVs up there. We need those kind of they would have thawed out on their degrees when you leave the home. automobiles. But we do not need auto- own and ready to go right in the oven. My wife and I left this last weekend, mobiles that get four miles to the gal- It is a very simple step. Imagine if we and we have refrigerated air. Every air lon. had 200 million people going home from conditioner in our house we have three Frankly, the automobile manufactur- work and they were not defrosting in separate thermometers, three separate ers had been responsive, not because the microwave, you want to know air conditioning units, one system, but they are all of a sudden good citizens, but because we the citizens are de- something? That would help conserve three units and each of those units, manding more efficient automobiles. electricity? Good idea. that thermometer was at 90 degrees on Every time your iron heats up, you We are demanding better gasoline all three of them. burn more electricity than leaving mileage; and after this energy crisis, When we came home, it only incon- your lights on for 4 consecutive hours. we are going to demand more. venienced us for about 15 minutes. The Try ironing all of your clothes at one But take a look. As I said earlier, house was hot for about 15 minutes be- time. This simple practice can make a mark my word, I think in a year and a fore that refrigerated air began to cool surprising difference in your water and half, at the outmost 2 years, we are that home, and within half an hour, we power bill. Clean the lint filter after going to have an electrical generation were at the exact temperature we every load. It says that on your dryer, glut in this country. wanted to be. clean that lint filter. Let me give my colleagues some sta- Every time you turn that iron up, it But in the meantime for 48 hours in- tistics. Right now, the power plant in- is like lighting for 4 hours. That iron stead of those air conditioners running dustry is in the midst of an unprece- uses a lot of electricity. I am not say- about every 20 minutes, they didn’t run dented, unprecedented in our entire ing do not use the iron. I am not saying at all. That probably saved my wife history, power building boom and add- that at all. What I am saying is, hey, and I $20 or $30 for the weekend. So you ing more new power than the plant a let us do all of your clothes at once so save money, you help conserve. week that was recently called for. Last you do not have to continually heat it We have talked about several basic year, 158 new generation plants were up. things that we can do for conservation. completed nationwide or three plants a Mr. Speaker, let us talk about a cou- Let me reiterate a few of my points week. The new units had an average ca- ple other simple things. Replace 60- and with my last 17 minutes, let me pacity of 150 megawatts. That means watt bulbs that are left out overnight just kind of recap what I have said this about 150 homes. with two 15-watt bulbs. We talked evening. Let me just go on here. The elec- about that. We talked about the use of First of all, take a look. Cleaner air. tricity industry expects to build 1,453 the lights that use compact fluorescent We are making progress. Do not be- new power units in the next 3 years. bulbs. You have probably heard that. come distressed about the entire pic- Taking time off for weekends, that Here is another conservation, replace ture. There are certain areas that we amounts to one plant a day for 5 years 150-watt bulb operating 5 hours a night really need to do something or we are running. Now, maybe all of these will with a 35-watt compact fluorescent going to have a lot of problems. not get built, but right now the elec- bulb. Same lighting impact, no impact b 2000 trical generation capacity plants de- on life-style, but yet you are helping signs in this country call for a new conserve in this country. One of them is our dependency on plant every day coming on-line for the Let us look at this one, here are foreign oil. Our second one is to ignore next, as I said, for the next 5 years. some other easy steps, unplug or get conservation. We cannot ignore con- So I think we are going to have an rid of that refrigerator in the garage. servation, and we cannot continue to electrical generation glut. But that Do you know how many people have an build our dependency on foreign oil. does not mean we have solved the prob- extra refrigerator in the garage? Mil- But some of the good things that are lem. Number one, we have to have lions. Do you know how many people happening is, one, people in this coun- transmission lines. We have to move have a freezer in the garage that does try are willing to conserve. If we can the electricity from point A to point B. not have much in it? A lot of people. help give ideas, tell your neighbor, talk Number two, we have got to continue a You probably do not really need it about it at coffee. very aggressive educational campaign and if you figure it out, the average re- In California, they are in a crisis. on conservation, points like I gave my frigerator, the extra refrigerator you Now they did not conserve because the colleagues, very harmless ways to help have plugged in your garage uses about Governor of California told them to all of us, reasonable people bring about $16 a month in electricity. conserve. They did not conserve be- a solution for our energy crisis. You figure out what kind of foods cause, all of a sudden, they felt like But probably what is most important you have in that refrigerator you may good citizens overnight. They conserve this evening, I can tell my colleagues, have a couple six packs of beer and fig- because they had a crisis. They con- is it cannot be conservation alone. I am ure out at $16 dollars a, you figure how serve because they got their monthly a big believer in conservation. I just much, what that, about $192 dollars a utility bill. But none the less, their spent the last hour going through with year, just to be able to refrigerate it in conservation cut electricity demand by my colleagues where I think we can all the garage. Make a little more room in 10 percent in the State of California conserve. The numbers that result the refrigerator, put your beer in there. last month alone. That is pretty good. from these conservation ideas that I You are going to save a lot of elec- That is positive. gave are not insignificant numbers. tricity, and you are going to save your- I want my colleagues to know that if These are not small numbers. These self a lot of money. one takes a look, cleaner air, energy numbers make a difference.

VerDate 13-JUN-2001 03:44 Jun 14, 2001 Jkt 089060 PO 00000 Frm 00070 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K13JN7.166 pfrm01 PsN: H13PT1 June 13, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H3147 But while I say this, while I say that ing a program is, if it is not giving us Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas, for 5 min- conservation will be of substantial ben- results, we have got to have enough utes, today. efit to our energy situation, I must guts to stand up and cut it off. (The following Members (at the re- also say that we have got to continue In summary, Madam Speaker, I think quest of Mr. REHBERG) to revise and ex- to look for, explore for natural re- this energy crisis is limited. Over the tend their remarks and include extra- sources, that we have got to continue long-term, obviously we have issues. neous material:) to allow transmission lines, that we We cannot continue to grow in depend- Mr. GUTKNECHT, for 5 minutes, today are going to have to have some refin- ency on foreign oil. But California is and June 14. eries in this country. unique. California is more the excep- Mr. SOUDER, for 5 minutes, today. We cannot typically say that every- tion than the rule. California, a large Mr. ENGLISH, for 5 minutes, June 14. thing that is being built is a disaster, part, brought this on itself. But Cali- Mr. HUNTER, for 5 minutes, today. that everything being built means the fornia is a large part of the United (The following Member (at his own end of our life as we know it, that ev- States. We all want to help California request) to revise and extend his re- erything being built is going to be a despite the criticisms we have; and marks and include extraneous mate- complete and ultimate decimation to some of the whipping that California rial:) our environment. There are a lot of gets they have got coming. But a lot of Mr. WELDON of Pennsylvania, for 5 reasonable proposals out there that can it, they do not. Californians I think are minutes, today. be made to work. exercising responsibility by practicing f Now, no project, no project should be conservation. approved without mitigation, in fact But the reality is this, reasonable OMISSION FROM THE CONGRES- even higher than mitigation, and that people can come together and have rea- SIONAL RECORD OF FRIDAY, is supplementation to the environ- sonable solutions that, one, protect our JUNE 8, 2001 ment. On the other hand, when the en- environment; two, conserve for future vironmental impacts have been miti- generations; three, lower dependency SENATE BILLS REFERRED gated, when the environment has been on foreign oil; and, four, do not have a enhanced in some cases or may be en- negative impact on the life-style to A bill of the Senate of the following hanced to a degree in all cases, when which we have all become accustomed. title was taken from the Speaker’s we meet that standard, do not continue If we can meet those four, five stand- table and, under the rule, referred as to say no. Do not continue to say it ards, we have done pretty well. I think follows: cannot happen in my backyard. reasonable people can do that. S. 487. An act to amend chapter 1 of title When those standards are met, we as f 17, United States Code, relating to the ex- a Nation have a responsibility to the emption of certain performances or displays next generation. We have to have LEAVE OF ABSENCE for educational uses from copyright infringe- enough foresight for future generations By unanimous consent, leave of ab- ment provisions, to provide that the making to say yes to reasonable projects, yes sence was granted to: of copies or phonorecords of such perform- ances or displays is not an infringement to reasonable conservation. We have Mr. LARSON of Connecticut (at the re- under certain circumstances, and for other also got to have enough guts, frankly, quest of Mr. GEPHARDT) for today after purposes; to the Committee on the Judici- to stand up here. We have tax credits 3:00 p.m. on account of attending a fu- ary. that are not working, not only in neral in Connecticut. f Washington, but Washington is unique. Mr. FOSSELLA (at the request of Mr. There have been hundreds of millions ARMEY) for today on account of attend- ENROLLED BILL SIGNED of dollars wasted in tax credits for so- ing the graduation of his son. Mr. Trandahl, Clerk of the House, re- called alternative energy. f ported and found truly enrolled a bill Well, what are the results. Do not let SPECIAL ORDERS GRANTED of the House of the following title, people divert us from looking at the which were thereupon signed by the bottom line. Are we getting the results By unanimous consent, permission to Speaker: that we want simply because of what address the House, following the legis- H.R. 1914. An act to extend for 4 additional they call their project: ‘‘My project is lative program and any special orders months the period for which chapter 12 of the solar project, so do not dare ask me heretofore entered, was granted to: title 11 of the United States Code is reen- any questions about what is the bot- (The following Members (at the re- acted. tom result.’’ Are we really coming out quest of Mr. MCNULTY) to revise and f with a product that is efficient for our extend their remarks and include ex- environment? Are we really conserving traneous material:) ADJOURNMENT energy for the hundreds of millions of Mr. BONIOR, for 5 minutes, today. Mr. MCINNIS. Madam Speaker, I dollars we are spending? Mr. POMEROY, for 5 minutes, today. move that the House do now adjourn. It was amazing to me how many peo- Mrs. CLAYTON, for 5 minutes, today. The motion was agreed to; accord- ple criticize the President in his budget Mr. SCHIFF, for 5 minutes, today. ingly (at 8 o’clock and 8 minutes p.m.), when he says this program has not pro- Mr. BERRY, for 5 minutes, today. the House adjourned until tomorrow, duced. This program sounds good. It Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California, for Thursday, June 14, 2001, at 10 a.m. 5 minutes, today. has got a great name, especially in an f energy crisis. It has got lots of special Mr. WEINER, for 5 minutes, today. interest groups in Washington who Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi, for 5 EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, benefit from those tax credits, pushing, minutes, today. ETC. how dare you say no to this alternative Mr. DAVIS of Illinois, for 5 minutes, Under clause 8 of rule XII, executive or that alternative. today. communications were taken from the But the reality of it is, one, we have Ms. SOLIS, for 5 minutes, today. Speaker’s table and referred as follows: to conserve; two, we have to explore Mr. PALLONE, for 5 minutes, today. 2458. A letter from the Congressional Re- and find new resources for our energy; Mr. INSLEE, for 5 minutes, today. view Coordinator, Animal and Plant Health and, three, the money that we are cur- Mr. SANDERS, for 5 minutes, today. Inspection Service, Department of Agri- rently spending, the taxpayer dollars, Mr. DEFAZIO, for 5 minutes, today. culture, transmitting the Department’s final my colleagues’ dollars, their constitu- Mr. GREEN of Texas, for 5 minutes, rule—Noxious Weeds; Permits and Interstate ents’ dollars, we have to justify, we today. Movement [Docket No. 98–091–2] received have got to treat those dollars as if Mr. ANDREWS, for 5 minutes, today. June 11, 2001, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Agri- Mr. KUCINICH, for 5 minutes, today. they were our own. culture. We have an incumbent responsibility, Mr. UNDERWOOD, for 5 minutes, today. 2459. A letter from the Chief, Programs and an inherent responsibility to manage Ms. BERKLEY, for 5 minutes, today. Legislation Division, Office of Legislative those dollars. No matter how nice Ms. CARSON of Indiana, for 5 minutes, Liaison, Department of Defense, transmit- sounding or how progressively sound- today. ting notification that the Commander of Air

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