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They don't take. * * * The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Nebraska will suspend. The time of the gentleman from Illinois has expired. Announcement by the Acting Chair The Acting CHAIR. Members should not interject remarks after the…
So, politics of the extreme put us in this position. But let's ask, who benefits from this oil coming into the United States from our partner, Canada, and being refined and used in the United States of America? If we have this, everyone…
There is only one silver bullet that exists to prevent cyber crimes. That is to completely disconnect your computer from any network.
It is simply not possible to spend money on investments that don't increase the productivity of the economy and expect to get a net increase in the economy, or even a net zero.
It is not often that Congress can take a single step that will simultaneously help reduce the future price at the gas pump, strengthen the Nation's energy security, and create literally tens of thousands of jobs.
Short circuiting the review process would be an injustice and, in fact, a gross injustice to all of us that have to live and work along the proposed path of this pipeline.
Those of us who live and work along the proposed path of this pipeline applaud him for placing our welfare ahead of the interests of big oil companies.
We do not feel that a foreign corporation has any right to take our land for their private use and gain, especially when there has been no determination that this project is in the national interest.
TransCanada has built a mountain of distrust among the ordinary citizens of our State and either with their voluntary agreement to move the pipeline out of the Sandhills we remain very skeptical.
It defies logic to me that when you have a transportation system that the State Department even testified was safer, the safest means of transport, the most environmentally safe transport that there be arguments that it not add to our…
It befuddles most Americans as polling has shown that this President denied the permit, and the jobs that would be created...
I think one of the key points here that has been missed in the State Department's testimony... is that they are using Nebraska as the excuse to deny the permit.
The absolute certainty is that the prices will go up, shortages will exist, our economy will suffer.
I thank the gentleman from Virginia. I'd like to just take the last couple of minutes to close here. What we have is a $7 billion infrastructure project for the United States of America that will immediately employ 20,000 workers. It's a…
I thank you for your support for this effort for American jobs. At this time I'd like to recognize another one of our freshman phenoms on the Energy and Commerce Committee, the gentleman from Virginia, Morgan Griffith.
Thank you, Mr. Sullivan, and I appreciate your support on this issue. At this time I'd like to recognize the gentleman from Illinois, one of the new phenoms on our Energy and Commerce Committee, Mr. Kinzinger.
Thank you, Mr. Barton. At this time I would like to yield such time as he may consume to the other gentleman from Texas, Judge Carter.