Political Quotes

“Thank you, Mr. Speaker, for the opportunity to address the House on the issue of the Keystone XL pipeline. There are pipe dreams and pipelines out there that people talk about. Apparently, when it comes to jobs, maybe the pipeline is apparently a pipe dream. We have an opportunity, in this country, to secure our energy future with North American energy, to create American jobs on a project that is a 1,700-mile-long pipeline. You know, I hear all the time from constituents in Colorado about: Hey, what's the deal with this pipeline? Why can't we get forward moving creating jobs, American energy independence using North America's great resources to help our country create jobs and a more secure energy future? And the conversation then really revolves around commonsense ideas. Here's a President who, the President has said in the past that we need to support shovel-ready projects, that the stimulus bill that passed in 2009 was all about shovel-ready projects. And if you go back to last summer, I believe the President had said, well, I guess shovel- ready wasn't as shovel-ready as we thought it was. Well, here's a shovel-ready project. Here is a pipeline, a privately funded pipeline that's ready to be built, 1,700 miles, 20,000 American jobs. We could get started on that today. It's been years since this pipeline was actually first--the permit process first started, and yet here we are waiting once again. This isn't a surprise to anybody.…”