| June 26, 2009 | House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) | Permalink House
Democrats didn’t want the American people to understand the true impact
of Speaker Pelosi’s 1,500-page national energy tax. So House Republican Leader John Boehner took to the House floor and read portions of it to the American people, explaining how it would to raise electricity prices, increase gasoline prices, and ship American jobs overseas to countries like China and India. House
Democrats didn’t much like it either, and they tried to shut him down.
See what Leader Boehner told House Energy & Commerce Committee
Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) here: 
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WAXMAN:
I know it’s the custom of the House to give a little extra latitude, is
there any outside limit to the amount of time a leader might take? And
do we have historical records that might be broken tonight? Or is this
an attempt to get some people to leave on a close vote? CHAIR: The custom of the House is to listen to the Leader’s comments. BOEHNER:
Reclaiming my time. The gentleman has had his 30 years to put this bill
together and the House is going to spend a whopping five hours debating
the most profound piece of legislation to come to this floor in a
hundred years. And the Chairman has the audacity to drop a 300-plus
page amendment in the hopper at 3:09 AM this morning, so I would ask my
colleagues: Don’t you think the American people expect us to
understand what’s in the bill before we vote on it? | 
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