James Davis: “Mr. Chairman, nobody has answered the question yet why we are here. The gentleman from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker) said we…”

“Mr. Chairman, nobody has answered the question yet why we are here. The gentleman from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker) said we are here to redebate the amendment; the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Callahan) to put the language in the amendment, but he still has not told us why we are here. Let me say what is happening because this is a fact. We have opened a can of worms here today. I would say to the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Callahan), we are hearing a new debate and the debate is that a pipeline on which $800 million has already been spent, we are going to debate whether it used the right kind of steel and if it did not we are going to shut it down. That is lunacy. Yes, this pipeline has some steel from other countries and it also has a lot of steel from the United States. Some of it was fabricated in Mobile, Alabama. Let me add something else. I have been asked questions whether this is a unionized project or not. We are going to debate whether this was unionized after it has been built? What are we going to do deconstruct the thing and build a fishing reef off the coast of Mobile? This is a unionized project. Is it 100 percent unionized? No, it is not. So is that a basis to defeat the amendment and scrap this project? Lunacy. Let me also point out, this pipeline was built to transport natural gas that is already being drilled and extracted in the Mobile area.”