on the texas plains, you can think of the extermination of the buffaloes having occurred in 2 phases. at these time of european contact, arranged more than any other time in history. a guy ran into one in present-day washington d.c. in north carolina. there are great herds, someone's on 4,000 in national tennessee. most of those were killed off hunting for food, doing limited amounts of hunting. in 1871, they only live on the great plains. the only place since there has been a perpetual population of buffalo. in 1871, it is very a elastic. on the phone side of the industrial revolution, it wasn't used the way it is now. it is all ledger. people started putting in orders. when i mention phase one i mentioned hunting for me but 1.15 which was going on, native americans hunted buffalo and sold them to white people. the roads usually were taken with the hair on. they were animals who were hunted in the wintertime, not many white people got into a. you could sell a rogue for $5. the demand wasn't great. there were advanced techniques, doesn't matter when you're going to -- that was year ro

this is to hide hunters, working on the texas plains. -hunting took off, you can think of the extermination or the near extermination of the buffalo as having occurred in two phases, to .5 phases let's say. at the time of year-- european contact, they had a bitter bigger home range and they were maybe more of them that any time in history. a guy ran into one in present-day washington d.c., people encountered him on the coasts of north carolina, the coast of norman's. they may be war in northern california, pennsylvania had some. a guy estimated one time having seen 4,000 in nashville tennessee. most of those were killed off just by people hunting for food, by settlers moving in and doing limited amounts of hunting for sustenance. in 1871, by then we have, they only live on the great plains which have always been the core of there, the core of their range. is probably the only place that the perpetual existence. in 18718 channing company, a tannery in england developed footwear and belting and coincided with the industrial revolution. web

at that time there were vast rivers of horse moving across the plains of the west, and texas.t's how a native american described the countless four-leggeds that were living here at the time. this is part of the big suppressed story. we've all heard about the buffalo and countless buffalo that were running the plains then and all of the other wild things, but here, our great icon of freedom has anybody here ever heard that there were vast rivers of horse running across the plains then? it was something i didn't know and i was just thrilled to find out, but at the same time kind of saddened, because it -- you know, i kept thinking as i was writing my book that this lost history, what's happened, what are we doing. the battle of the little big more than, which of course is known as custer's last stand, was really a great victory for native americans. and in fact, the horse that became known as the lone survivor of that bale, and there were others, but the horse that became known as the lone survivor, was named comanche. it was a cavalry horse. taken by the cavalry off what was on

i represent southeast texas, the energy capital of the united states. 20% of the refineries in this country that help all these folks all over the fruited plain with energy i represent them. this week alone we've had 86 people call and say vote for this bill. we've had 1,578 people in my district call and say, vote no against this bill. almost 20 times. i'm an advocate for those people in southeast texas. they believe, as i believe, we're going to close america's energy with this bill. the c.b.o. and the e.p.a. says there's not going to be much difference in the climate if we pass this deal. bummer. it's not even going to work. and it's more important to realize this bill is about control, government control of our lives, our businesses and everything we do. washington, d.c.'s going to dictate how we live and how we shall live and how our businesses will live and it's all bad because d.c. is in control and not the people. this is a bad bill. vote no. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from california. mr. waxman: madam speaker, i am pleased to yield at this time a minute to the gentleman from colorado, mr