Sherwood Boehlert
Sherwood Boehlert
Sherwood "Sherry" Louis Boehlertis a retired American politician from New York. He represented upstate New York in the United States House of Representatives from 1983 until 2007. Boehlert, a Republican, was considered to be a member of the party's moderate wing. He served as Chairman of the Science Committee from 2001 to 2006...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth28 September 1936
CountryUnited States of America
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Perhaps worst of all, the bill still does virtually nothing to limit the nation's growing demand for oil: the core cause of price spikes.
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The U.S. uses most of its oil for transportation. We can limit U.S. demand for oil by requiring automakers to use the technology that already exists to improve fuel economy - technology that the automakers refuse to bring into the market despite societal demand.
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We need to reduce or at least limit U.S. demand for oil as quickly as possible, and we need to develop new technologies that can further help address our addiction to oil in the future.
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Sixteen Hundred Pennsylvania Avenue should follow the example of Ten Downing Street, and focus national attention on this.
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The national minimum wage has not been increased in 9 years. By year's end, 21 States across America will have a minimum wage exceeding the Federal minimum wage.
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I don't see a groundswell of people willing to raise gas taxes right now. That leaves fuel economy standards as the only effective tool we have as a nation to make a dent in our dangerous and ever growing consumption of oil.
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Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue.
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To learn nothing and do nothing would be delinquent,
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What we couldn't accept was the new mandatory spending under this bill, which would open the federal purse to developers, ... Reforming the law should not be a euphemism for gutting the law, and that's exactly what the bill would do.
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There is a clear message from the election results all over the country, ... The American people, by and large as a body politic, are looking for a more centrist approach.
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If you bring creative professors together with dedicated students in a state-of-the-art facility, the possibilities are infinite,
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The U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy just this week recommended a partial transfer, and the president's commission on space exploration, headed by former Air Force Secretary Pete Aldridge, is also reportedly considering such an idea, ... I'm skeptical of such moves for a number of reasons, but, in any event, such a move wouldn't necessarily free up funds for space exploration. The assumption behind such recommendations is always that the money should be transferred along with the program, so NASA would actually have less of a 'piggy bank' for exploration after such a transfer occurred.
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There is simply not enough money in NASA's budget to carry out all the tasks it's undertaking on the current schedule.