Quotes by Sherwood Boehlert - Page 1

Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue.
Sherwood Boehlert / American Politician
Increase
Long
Minimum
Minimum Wage
Overdue
Mr
Speaker
Wage
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The way things are going, we are not too far from the day when it will take an hour's labor just to pay for the gasoline to get to the job.
Sherwood Boehlert / American Politician
Jobs
Gasoline
Labor
Pay
Hour
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About 60 percent of the oil consumed daily by Americans is used for transportation, and about 45 percent is used for passenger cars and light trucks.
Sherwood Boehlert / American Politician
Car
Consumed
Light
Oil
Transportation
Daily
Passenger
Trucks
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Well, for starters, we have to do more to create demand for new technologies that can reduce our dependence on foreign oil and environmental degradation.
Sherwood Boehlert / American Politician
Environmental
Technology
Aggravation
Degradation
Dependence
Foreign Oil
Oil
Starters
New Technologies
Reduce
Technologies
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First, we should not be opening our coasts, all of our coasts, to oil drilling when we have not taken the first step, not the first step, to conserve oil.
Sherwood Boehlert / American Politician
Drilling
Firsts
Oil
Opening
Taken
Conserve
First Step
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So the only way we're going to improve fuel economy or appliance efficiency swiftly and to the maximum extent practicable is if the government requires it.
Sherwood Boehlert / American Politician
Government
Fuel
Fuel Economy
Maximum
Way
Appliance
Extent
Requires
Swiftly
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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.
Sherwood Boehlert / American Politician
Minimum
Minimum Wage
Exceeding
Wage
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Craft brewers are committed to promoting the safe and moderate consumption of their beverage, and work closely with their communities to prevent underage drinking and alcohol abuse.
Sherwood Boehlert / American Politician
Abuse
Alcohol
Committed
Community
Consumption
Drinking
Safe
Beverage
Closely
Communities
Craft
Moderate
Prevent
Underage
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Let me start by emphasizing that I am open to efforts to expedite environmental procedures for true emergencies or in other clear cases where current laws are needlessly burdensome.
Sherwood Boehlert / American Politician
Environmental
Cases
Effort
Emergencies
Law
Procedures
Burdensome
Current
Efforts
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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.
Sherwood Boehlert / American Politician
Technology
Addiction
Demand
Oil
Develop
Further
Limit
New Technologies
Quickly
Reduce
Technologies
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Our oil problems are only going to get worse. Our trade balance is only going to get worse. So we have to slow the growth of U.S. oil consumption, particularly imported oil consumption.
Sherwood Boehlert / American Politician
Balance
Consumption
Growth
Oil
Imported
Slow
Worse
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And autos are not the only product that could be made more energy efficient if we just put in place sensible requirements. This is also true of many appliances and even of entire buildings.
Sherwood Boehlert / American Politician
Appliances
Building
Efficient
Energy
Requirements
Sensible
Buildings
Product
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But our energy woes are in many ways the result of classic market failures that can only be addressed through collective action, and government is the vehicle for collective action in a democracy.
Sherwood Boehlert / American Politician
Government
Classic
Democracy
Energy
Vehicle
Collective
Result
Woes
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Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme.
Sherwood Boehlert / American Politician
Environmental
Excuse
Giving
Legislation
Misguided
Oil
Oil Industry
Refinery
Vote
Extreme
Gifts
Prices
Uses
Weaken
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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.
Sherwood Boehlert / American Politician
Consumption
Fuel
Fuel Economy
Gas
Standards
Dent
Effective
Leaves
Raise
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For the second straight year, craft beer is the fastest growing segment of the U.S. alcoholic beverage industry. In 2005, craft beer experienced a 9 percent increase in volume, nearly triple that of the growth experienced in the wine and spirits industry.
Sherwood Boehlert / American Politician
Beer
Growth
Increase
Industry
Percent
Volume
Wine
Years
Beverage
Nearly
Craft
Experienced
Fastest
Second
Segment
Spirits
Triple
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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.
Sherwood Boehlert / American Politician
Technology
Demand
Despite
Fuel
Fuel Economy
Oil
Transportation
Exists
Limit
Requiring
Societal
Uses
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So we in Congress have a very clear choice. We can take largely symbolic action and sit back and fiddle while Americans burn more gasoline. Or we can pass concrete, effective legislation that will save consumers money while significantly reducing U.S. oil consumption.
Sherwood Boehlert / American Politician
Choices
Concrete
Congress
Consumption
Fiddle
Gasoline
Legislation
Oil
Reducing
Symbolic
Burn
Effective
Largely
Pass
Save
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