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Commentary: Positive energy in WashingtonBy Lou Dobbs NEW YORK -- Because this broadcast focuses intensely on the issues that matter most to working and middle-class men and women, I am often critical of both political parties and both houses of Congress and this administration. But I also want to endorse a solution that is actually bipartisan in the energy crisis. The Democratic leader of the House, Nancy Pelosi, recommended rolling back $7 billion in royalties to oil companies approved by Congress and this president, and $10 billion in subsidies from their energy legislation. And Republican Congressman Curt Weldon suggested rolling back the federal excise tax for at least a year. The savings would be enormous, amounting to about 40 cents a gallon, so I want to give both a Democrat and a Republican credit. That's part of the answer in the energy crisis. I also want to give credit certainly to Senator Judd Gregg and those senators today that saw fit to vote and pass his amendment to apply another $1.9 billion to securing our nation's broken borders and ports. It is literally the first positive to come out of the Senate's deliberations and negotiations at what is being too loosely called, "immigration reform." In Washington, any positive these days is to be hailed. Congratulations are in order for Senator Gregg and his colleagues. But no one on this broadcast is anything other than skeptical about the Senate's intentions. If members of both parties and the president believe that passing a border security funding amendment clears their way to pass an irresponsible guest worker amnesty program, I think the upcoming illegal alien amnesty demonstrations next Monday will be viewed as a lounge act to the main event. American citizens deserve far better from their elected representatives, and they deserve secure borders and ports. 
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