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Jay Inslee: llution regulation. i'm quite confident that these tools can be employed to accomplish precisely that. mr. inslee: i think, too, when we think about this clean energy future, it has to be in relationship to what other countries are doing as well. and we believe when we pass this bill next year it's going be to be because we believe we are not going to see these markets to

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Jay Inslee: countries who could steal these markets from us. we are in a race right now to see who is going to be dominant king electric cars and batteries. and china has an interest in doing that and they are making enormous investments to do that. we are in a race today to decide who is going to dominate the solar power industry, and china

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Jay Inslee: that's what we are up against. that's one of the reasons we intend to take an aggressive position here with research and development dollars, with limits on co-2 that will spur investment and kick start the businesses here that we need to so that we can regain these markets. we invented solar energy in this country.

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Jay Inslee: the bright source company, a company doing concentrated solar power. what they do is they use mirrors in various fashions to concentrate radiant energy, heat up a liquid, make steam, and then create electricity from it. with zero pollution associated with it. bright source has now signed contracts for thousands of

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Earl Blumenauer: pass this bill we are going to jump-start jobs in this mr.lumenauer: i appreciate the context that you've provided and your unrelenting interest in understanding and acknowledging and advancing american technology.

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Earl Blumenauer: but mentioned having fallen behind the germa for example in technologies that we developed in terms of the commercial application. china is spending six times more than we spend on

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Earl Blumenauer: washington, portland, oregon, is competing with denver and houston to be the wind energy capital. a couple of international companies have located their american headquarters there. and these are many that we helped initiate. but we are falling behind.

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Earl Blumenauer: accomplished amazing feats both in terms of their own energy production and the dominance of world wind energy activity that one of those leading companies i mentioned that has its american headquarters in portland is vestus, a danish company. we watch what companies --

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Jay Inslee: advancement and putng the pressure on us to step up and do what we know we can do. mr. inslee: the gentleman has mentioned wind. some people think of wind as a toy you get under a christmas tree or something. inact, wind energy, according to the department of energy, this was under the previous president's department of energy, concluded we can have 20% of all of our electricity

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Jay Inslee: generated by wind in the next couple of decades just using existing technology. now, we believe there is going to be some advances in technology. we think there's a good shot at having good storage. one of the issues of wind is the wind doesn't blow all the time. it's an intermittant source. so there's two ways to get around that problem.

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Jay Inslee: these now h actuly being grid connected to store wind and solar when we have excess power generation. we think there is a reasonable chance to get to 20%, which is very significant, just on one technology alone.

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Earl Blumenauer: we have our regional power marketing authority, the bonneville power administration, which has been a leader in helping facilitate wind energy, but now is looking at really rather dramatic cost increases for wind integration which i'm hopeful we can look at very hard

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Earl Blumenauer: i must excuse myself. i want to thank mr. blumenauer for being such a stalwart champion of these causes. we know there's going to be enthusiasts of jobs created in this clean energy revolution and i hope a lot will be in oregon which is a great state. thank you. mr. blumenauer: thank you, congressman inslee, for joining us. and nor your leadership and comments.

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Earl Blumenauer: electoral gain at the expense of the long-term interests of our children. i frankly have been earrassed by some of the argumentation that we have heard, the misrepresentation of just basic factual information. one of the things that we are hearing from, sadly, from

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Earl Blumenauer: if the republicans had simply, and i'm quoting here, misstated the results of the m.i.t. study, the truth-o-meter would have been content giving this one fault. but for them to keep repeating the claim after the author of the study told them it was wrong

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Earl Blumenauer: the "boston globe," on one particular issue, the assertion that it would mean a light tax switch, it's just wrong, said professor riley, wrong in so many ways it's hard to begin. i would hope, particularly when

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Earl Blumenauer: planet, to restore our economy, to regain our position of technological leadership and be able to put us on a path of sustain blet environmentally and economically for the -- sustainability environmentally and economically for the future, the stakes are too high to have

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Earl Blumenauer: other side of the aisle will reject the leadership's marching orders to politicize, to talk, and to not engage and instead to deal with the facts, instead, deal with opportunities to restore our economy, to create millions of clean energy jobs,

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Earl Blumenauer: that is attendant thereto. just in terms of strategic interests of the united states, we should stop wasting more oil than anyone in the world. we should stop using more oil per capita for transportation than anybody in the world. we should reduce our strategic

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Earl Blumenauer: to reduce the carbon pollution that causes global warming, that will enable us to be good stewards of the land now because the effects of global warming is going o-- is going to cost a lot more than the consequences of reducing it. as we've discussed this evening, this is in fact an opportunity for us to put our economy back

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Steven C. LaTourette: science and economy on the floor as we prepare to move this legislation forward. thank you and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. under the speaker's announced policy of january 6, 2009, the gentleman from ohio, mr. latourette, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the

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Steven C. LaTourette: minority leader. mr. latourette: thank you very much, mr. speaker. tonight i return to talk about an old topic and also something that's happened in the last couple of weeks. the speaker may recall that a number of weeks ago there was outrage at both ends of pennsylvania avenu determined that located within

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Steven C. LaTourette: mr. speaker, that when the stimulus package was considered on the other side of the capitol in the united states senate, two senators in a rare display of bipartisanship, senator snow of -- a republican of maine, and senator wyden, a democrat of oregon, offered an amendment that would hav

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Steven C. LaTourette: and the snow-wyden language removed and instead paragraph was inserted. now this paragraph, you read it carefully, mr. speaker, indicates that rather than

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Steven C. LaTourette: considere and the bonuses would be pai now, i have indicated a number of times on the floor that i know a lot of people were embarrassed by that. i would suggest that that's what happens when you legislate in a sloppy, rushed, haphazard, nonpartisan fashion. speak -- the speaker will

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Steven C. LaTourette: and further suggested that it should be put on the internet so anybody in america could take a look at this over 1,000 pages of legislation. well, that proposal passed. it came to a vote here in the house. and every member who was present that day, republican or democrat, voted and agreed that that was a good idea, we should

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Steven C. LaTourette: 1,000-page bill we were going to consider on friday until i arrived at the office that morning. the debate was 90 minutes and members, both republican and democrats, had 90 minutes to digest 1,000 pages and determine whether or not that piece of legislation deserved an up or a down vote. it was a bipartisan vote in that

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Steven C. LaTourette: who voted for the stimulus bill, voted for this paragraph that authorized the bonuses to a.i.g. yet, the next day, or days after the bonuses were announced, everybody was coming to the floor with -- beating their est, pulling out their hair, saying, i'm shocked. i can't believe it.

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Steven C. LaTourette: those bailout payments. but people were shocked. so they came up with -- i'll call them goofy. they came up with goofy pieces of legislation in an attempt to cover their political rear ends. and so the first one was, let's tax those bonuses at 90%. what a dumb piece of legislation that was, mr. speaker.

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Steven C. LaTourette: paragraph was inserted in the stimulus package is inappropriate d thankfully, the president of the united states, president obecause marx expressed his opinion that it wasn't a worthy piece of legislation and it's died a natural death over in the united states senate where it exactly should have. the next dumb idea that people