Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the distinguished gentleman from Washington for yielding and for his leadership over the years. We are going to miss him in this House, but I appreciate him leading on these energy efforts as he has over the years. I want to also thank my colleague from Nebraska (Mr. Terry), for bringing this bill forward. This is a jobs bill, but this is also a bill about American energy security, and, Mr. Speaker, it is a bill about national security. Let's go through each of those. First of all, this bill green-lights the Keystone pipeline. Here, you have got a bill that has been sitting on Barack Obama's desk for 6 years, Mr. Speaker, where 40,000 jobs hang in the mix, and President Obama continues to say ``no.'' We are finally saying ``yes'' to 40,000 American jobs, a great investment in a trading partner in Canada. We can get energy from Canada that we would no longer have to get from Middle Eastern countries who don't like us, Mr. Speaker. What this bill also does is opens up some of those vast natural resources throughout the Outer Continental Shelf that are closed right now off the coast of places like Virginia, Alaska, and, yes, even in Louisiana, where in our State we have said those extra revenue sources--that money that would be coming into our treasury--would help us reduce the national debt, but the revenue-sharing States would also be able to play a role in that.…”