05/21/2009 GAAS:257:09 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Print Version |
Gov. Schwarzenegger Issues Statement on House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Passage of American Clean Energy and Security Act
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger issued the following statement on the
passage of the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act out of the
House Energy and Commerce Committee:
"I
applaud today's bipartisan vote in Congress to move forward the Waxman-Markey
American Clean Energy and Security Act. While the Act still has a long road
ahead of it and I will work with the California delegation to improve it
further, this Act represents the kind of comprehensive federal strategy to use
energy more efficiently, produce more clean energy here at home, and
courageously address the urgent threat of global warming that leading states
such as California have urged for years. Just today, a total of 30 governors
acting as the Governors' Energy and Climate Coalition, the largest, most
diverse group ever assembled, called on Congress to pass this kind of
legislation. I congratulate the House members of both political parties that
today voted to move America toward a more energy secure and sustainable
future."
