You can "save the planet" and advocate for saving the planet on YOUR OWN FREE TIME, Ms. Pelosi! Being SPEAKER of the HOUSE means YOU WORK FOR THE PEOPLE, just in case you have forgotten, and WE do not PAY YOU to "save the planet" we PAY YOU to SCHEDULE a VOTE on the HOUSE FLOOR and DO THE PEOPLES WILL!
If you can NOT PERFORM, then STEP DOWN.
You can schedule your book tour on your FREE time. We do not PAY you to write your garbage books. That is not in the SOP for your JOB DESCRIBTION.
Washington, Jul 29 - In an interview this morning on FOX News’
America’s Newsroom, House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) repeated his
demand for a vote to lower gasoline prices before Democratic leaders send
Congress home for the month of August and called on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
(D-CA), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), and Senator Barack Obama
(D-IL) to stop blocking an up-or-down vote. Boehner also highlighted the
House GOP American Energy
Act (H.R. 6566) to increase production of American-made energy and help
lower gas prices.
MEGYN KELLY: Republican Congressman and House Minority Leader, from
Ohio, John Boehner joins me now. Good morning
Congressman.
HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER JOHN BOEHNER (R-OH):
Megyn, good morning.
KELLY: Thank you for being here.
So, OK, there is a bill that would address some of these issues like drilling
offshore. Nancy Pelosi and the House says it’s not going to get a
vote before the recess. You don’t think there should be a recess.
BOEHNER: I do not think there should be a recess. The
American people want us to do something about a high-price gasoline, the high
price of energy. The only way really to effect the price, really is
to do all of the above. We need to conserve more, we need biofuels, we
need alternative sources of energy, we need nuclear power, and, yes, we need to
produce more American made oil and gas in an environmentally-safe way and we can
do that. We introduced a bill last week, the American Energy Act.
What we’ve been asking the Speaker for eight weeks now is a vote. And we
don’t think the Congress ought to go on summer recess at the end of this week
without voting on the American energy plan.
KELLY: Your
position is you have got the votes to pass this thing, you just cannot get to
the House floor because Speaker Pelosi says she is not bringing it.
BOEHNER: I do think we have the votes in both the House and
the Senate. But it is Speaker Pelosi, it’s Harry Reid, it’s Barack Obama
who want no part of allowing the Congress to work its will on a vote that would
produce more American-made oil and gas. They’re absolutely opposed to
drilling. They worship at the altar of radical environmentalists.
That is why they have been blocking this vote, but the American people can
help. All they have to do is call their Member of Congress, their Senator,
and say don’t leave until you have a vote on this bill.
KELLY: Here’s what the Speaker said. I have it here so
bear with me while I read it. She said when pressed on what she’s not
allowing this to go for a vote, “I am trying to save the planet. I am
trying to save the planet. I will not have this debate trivialized by
their excuse,” meaning Republicans, “for their failed policy.” Any
response?
BOEHNER: Megyn, for 25 years, Democrats have
blocked more American-made oil and gas. That is why we are in the
predicament we are in. That is why 70 percent of our energy comes from
overseas. And she has time to go out and promote her book tour and her new
book, but she does not have time to schedule a vote on the floor of the House
and let the American people have their will expressed. I mean, we
got elected to Congress to go there and represent our constituents.
They want us to vote on more American-made oil and gas. We want to do
that. She, Harry Reid, and Barack Obama are standing in the way.
KELLY: You say that number one, this is a defining week for
the Congress. But you say that the reason the Democrats are not allowing
this to come to a vote is because of, and I quote, “a band of radical special
interest groups that support high gas prices.” What do you mean by
that?
BOEHNER: Well, if you listen to Barack Obama during the
primaries, you know, he didn’t think $5 gas was all that bad. He just was
upset that it got there so quickly. And what you’ve got, you’ve got a
bunch of radical environmentalists who think that we ought to have higher
gasoline prices so that Americans will drive less and that we will wean
ourselves off oil by putting cars away. That is not what the American
people want. They want a reasonable approach to our energy problems.
And the way to do that is to do all of the above. That is the American
energy plan.
KELLY: Do you think this is what Congress has
such low approval ratings because our viewers are watching this here.
You’ve got the votes you think in both Houses to pass this thing. We’re
in, some would say we’re in an energy crisis, and you cannot even get a bill to
come to a vote on the House floor because, you know, you’re basically getting
the thumb of the nose from the Democrats who control things.
BOEHNER: Yes, we have been through this before. It is
a legislative way to avoid a vote. They’ve shut down the appropriations
process in the House and the Senate because they are afraid that a member may
pass a pro-drilling vote on an appropriation bill. They’re trying to run
out the clock. We’re only going to be there this week. We’re only
there three weeks in September. And they’re hoping to get out of town
before anybody notices.
KELLY: I think the American people
are going to notice. You’re doing your best to make sure that
happens. House Minority Leader John Boehner, thank you for being here.
BOEHNER: Thanks, Megyn.
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