april 21, 2005

text from us congressional record house floor arguments over energy bill
h.r.6 energy policy act of 2005 sec. 320. liquefaction or gasification natural
gas terminals at page h2344:

mr. kennedy (d., ri)

“i will tell my colleagues, in rhode island we would welcome the chance

to have our gas piped in from some other country because the fact of the
matter is, our state knows, as every other state that has an lng facility
knows, that if we were to ever have that explode, it would decimate a 50-
mile radius.

we will take our lives over our jobs, over our taxes, over our security.”

mr. markey (d., ma,)

“if you just want the federal government to decide in the middle of your
district where this most attractive of all terrorist targets will be located,
then you vote ``no,'' but understand the consequences on the floor today.”

fyi: mr. markey is also the senior member of house homeland security
committee