Pete Domenici
Pete Domenici
Pietro Vichi "Pete" Domeniciis an American Republican politician, who served six terms as a United States Senator from New Mexico, from 1973 to 2009, the longest tenure in the state's history. During Domenici's tenure in the Senate, he advocated waterway usage fees, nuclear power, and related causes...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth7 May 1932
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Most Americans and most of the polls show that our people have a growing suspicion that the oil companies are taking unfair advantage of the current market conditions to line their coffers with excess profits.
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When the bell tolls ... we'll be able to say to senior citizens, 'We didn't touch Social Security,
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We need to have realistic expectations about how long we should expect high prices for natural gas, and we need to prepare for shortages,
drill
to drill in a way that will not despoil the beauty, and we think that can be done.
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Without a doubt this has been a failure of both individuals and institutions,
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That would mean that taxes would be at the highest level in 50 years, ... create dozens of new government programs running Washington, and it chooses bigger government instead of smaller government.
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that will include the taxes for the president's marginal tax reductions ... and a rebate of the surplus, giving back to the people some of the surplus that exists this year.
beg
I beg the Senate, once and for all, to do the right thing for our future,
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For the first time, the cost of the conservation and efficiency tax incentives exceeds the incentives for domestic oil production,
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I am very pleased that the House has passed an identical version of this bill, which enables it to get to President Bush for his signature right away, ... The bill strikes the right balances between protecting the natural resources of the wilderness and protecting state water rights.
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I am not pleased with the current funding situation, which will affect the labs and many other federal activities in New Mexico. It's not good, but we can live with this for a short period of time,
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However, we must face the reality that although we are making some headway, we are not doing enough, and that states and localities have had to incur tremendous expenses in dealing with the failure of the federal government to provide adequate security,
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I think a portfolio standard should go beyond wind, solar and geothermal energy to include renewable energy like hydropower and clean alternatives such as coal gasification, clean coal, nuclear energy and, finally, credits for achieving new levels of efficiency and conservation.
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Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, lets use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems.