Steve Southerland: “You will see on here that jobs are leaving the Gulf of Mexico, and they're going to the Mediterranean Sea, Egypt…”

“You will see on here that jobs are leaving the Gulf of Mexico, and they're going to the Mediterranean Sea, Egypt, Australia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone and, as we know, our favorite pick of late is Brazil. I'm saying that what we have to do in this body today is we have to make sure that we put our lives in the lives of the American family, and we have to make sure that it is time today to do what this body should have done many, many years ago, and we have to make sure that we take care of them and make sure that we tap into our natural resources that we have in this country. I stand today and rise in support of this rule as well as the underlying bill. Mr. McGOVERN. I yield myself 5 seconds. Mr. Speaker, let's be clear. This bill does nothing, nothing at all to lower fuel costs, and everything to increase the profits by big oil companies. I think it shows where the priority of the Republican Party is at this moment. At this time I would like to yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from Rhode Island (Mr. Cicilline).”