What is the holdup there?

Colombia is a key ally of the United States and the third-largest export market in Latin America for U.S. goods and services, and that's despite having tariff barriers in place. This agreement was negotiated in good faith years ago…

But consistent with the purpose of the benefit, should there be a requirement that UI recipients must search for work every week, with only very few limited exceptions, perhaps for those expected to return to a former job?

Because bottom line is we need to make sure the program is working.

But, you know, in thinking about the purpose of unemployment benefits, clearly they are designed to provide financial support while an individual looks for another job.

I thank the chairman for leading this effort tonight, and all of your leadership on trade issues as we go forward. Expanding export markets for American farmers, manufacturers, and service providers is essential if we're going to have a…

I am certainly concerned about our competitiveness, especially with the chemical industry in my state

With so much of our energy policy driven by the Tax Code, comprehensive tax reform needs to consider whether these tax incentives promote a sound energy strategy.

Natural gas is really the only alternative at this stage.

Don't push policies that will punish your current energy production.

And it is exceedingly frustrating to me to see that we don't have a strategy, going forward, for our country on energy security and to move us forward.

It is encouraging that steps are now being taken to remedy some of these problems.

First, don't punish your current energy production.

At what point do we use tax policy to drive some of these decisions, rather than having tax policy driving all of our energy decisions in a very incoherent way?

Now they are retrofitting, planning a retrofit to export natural gas, which we would have never thought this, five years ago.

We are a leader in oil and gas production, we have got lots of pipelines.

We clearly have to understand that this growing complexity in the Tax Code is a problem we have to address.

It is not inconceivable that just without any strategy--this is the markets working, looking to find this stuff, getting access right now on private lands.

I think it is pretty clear right now across the country that we don't have a real coherent energy strategy.

I was reluctant. I looked at this bill, the Nat Gas Act, I said, 'Well, it is going counter to what we want to do with tax reform.'

the two Subcommittees will hold a joint hearing on the intersection of energy policy and tax policy

We could do a lot for our country if we were to do all these things.

I thank the gentleman from New York for yielding time to me. Madam Speaker, it's been said that leadership is willing to make hard choices, fact-based choices to come up with solutions to solve problems and deliver results. Now, we…

I think there was a gross distortion of what's being proposed here. And again, the previous speaker just condemned the Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's bill in the U.S. Senate. That's the only Democratic bill we've had. So it seems to…

That's right. That's what we need. We need that to force some movement. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired. Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, at this time it's my privilege to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from…