Subject: [big campaign] RE: Full House GOP to push drilling at 1 p.m. rally tomorrow on Capitol steps
From: "Berning, Nick" <[email-masked]>
To: "Berning, Nick" <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:15:28 -0400
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P.S.  If you're in D.C. and can send folks, please do.

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From: Berning, Nick 
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 11:15 AM
To: [email-masked]
Subject: Full House GOP to push drilling at 1 p.m. rally tomorrow on Capitol steps

FYI ... Various environmental groups are going to send people with signs to show up and counter this.

·          On Wednesday, all House Republicans assemble on the West Front Steps at approximately 1pm to unveil our legislation and publicly demand the up-or-down vote the American people deserve. 
 
MEMORANDUM 
  
TO:      House Republicans 
  
FR:      Republican Leader John Boehner 
           Republican Whip Roy Blunt 
           Conference Chairman Adam Putnam 
           Chief Deputy Whip Eric Cantor 
  
DA:     July 22, 2008 
  
RE:       House Republicans demand a vote on American-made energy now 
  
American families continue to be crushed by high gas prices, and they are looking for leadership from Washington. House Republicans have stepped forward with meaningful solutions that will increase the supply of American-made energy, lower gas prices and promote energy independence. For their part, all Democratic leaders have offered is the same empty rhetoric and failed policies that have resulted in $4 gas. 
  
Over the last two months, House Republicans have proposed solution after legislative solution to America¹s energy crisis, including expanded deep water and Arctic coastal plain exploration, and increased investment in next-generation alternative and renewable energies. It is truly an ³all-of-the-above² energy strategy. House Republicans have aggressively carried this national dialogue forward and offered meaningful solutions that will lower gas prices.  The American people are listening, and the plan is attracting bipartisan support in Congress. 
  
Democrats in charge of Congress, however, are charting a very different course. While gas prices soar and Americans cry out for action, this Democratic Congress has refused to take meaningful action to help lower gas prices and promote energy independence, and it¹s on track to become the least productive Congress in 25 years.  The American people are demanding action, and time is running short. 
  
This week, House Republicans will introduce our ³all-of-the-above² energy plan in a single piece of legislation that increases the supply of American-made energy, improves conservation and efficiency, and promotes new and expanding technologies. 
  
To increase the supply American-made energy in environmentally sound ways, the legislation will: 
  
* Open our deep water ocean resources, which will provide an additional 3 million barrels of oil per day; 
* Open the Arctic coastal plain, which will provide an additional 1 million barrels of oil per day; and 
* Allow development of our nation¹s shale oil resources, which could provide an additional 2.5 million barrels of oil per day 
 
To improve energy conservation and efficiency, the legislation will: 
  
* Provide tax incentives for businesses and families that purchase more fuel efficient vehicles; 
* Provide a monetary prize for being the first to develop an economically feasible, super-fuel-efficient vehicle (reaching 100 miles-per-gallon); and 
* Provide tax incentives for businesses and homeowners who improve their energy efficiency. 
 
To promote new and expanding energy technologies, the legislation will: 
  
* Spur the development of alternative fuels, including through government contracting, the repeal of the "Section 526" prohibition on government purchasing of alternative energy and promoting coal-to-liquids technology. 
* Establishes a renewable energy trust fund using revenues generated by exploration in the deep ocean and in the Arctic coastal plain. 
* Permanently extends the tax credit for alternative energy production, including wind, solar and hydrogen; and 
* Eliminate barriers to the expansion of carbon-free nuclear power production. 
  
This legislation will demonstrate to the world that America will no longer keep its rich energy resources under lock-and-key. It will be a landmark step toward energy independence, and it will make needed investments in the alternative fuels that will power our lives and our economy in the future. 
  
Numerous independent polls show the American people strongly support this approach to our energy crisis.  It would clearly garner the support of a bipartisan majority of Democrats and Republicans in Congress, and it is legislation that the President would sign into law. Yet House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) continues to stand in the way of lower gas prices for struggling families and small businesses.  When asked last week whether she would schedule a vote on meaningful legislation to increase American energy production, the Speaker told CNN, ³I have no plans to do so.² 
  
The Democratic leadership in Congress is defying the will of the American people and a bipartisan majority in Congress. American families are suffering. Time is running short, and further inaction can no longer be tolerated. 
  
House Republicans will stand together beginning today and demand that the Democratic leadership hold a vote on this legislation to increase American-made energy before Congress adjourns for the month of August. On Wednesday, all House Republicans assemble on the West Front Steps at approximately 1pm to unveil our legislation and publicly demand the up-or-down vote the American people deserve. You will be contacted shortly to become an original co-sponsor of this vital legislation. 
  
We will use every option at our disposal to force a vote on the ³all of the above² energy plan.  America¹s energy future should not be held hostage to the whims of radical special-interest groups that support higher gas prices. 
If Speaker Pelosi and her liberal colleagues in the Democratic leadership continue to defy the will of the American people, they do so at their own peril.

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