Mr. Speaker. I rise in support of the modified rule sought by my colleagues in the New England delegation. Such a ruleallowing deletions in the bill. but prohibiting any additionswould give us a welcome opportunity to strike the provisions barring the replacement of the oil import quota system with a tariff system. The quota systema thorn in the side of New England consumers for a decade nowrestricts all but a trickle of inexpensive fuel oil imports into the Northeastern United States. As a result. Mr. Speaker. the domestic oil industry rules the New England marketplace for petroleum products with something akin to feudal sovereignty.
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