Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, it is not often in life that you get a second chance, but, today, we are here to offer the Senate a second chance, a second chance to stand up and say ``yes''--``yes'' to these American energy solutions that, indeed, will help create jobs and lower costs for American families. Several of the bills included in today's package were advanced through our committee, Energy and Commerce, and many were bipartisan from the very start. It includes a solution to finally build the Keystone pipeline 6 years after the application went forward. Here we are 6 years later from when the application was first submitted. We still don't have a pipeline, and folks are still out of work. It shouldn't take 6 years to approve a pipeline, and the President's continued political delays are simply unacceptable. That is why we are taking action to ensure that this does not happen again. We have got a solution today to bring certainty to the approval process for cross-border energy projects so that we don't have to endure another Keystone-like delay in the future. As part of the Architecture of Abundance, we are also going to need to build more interstate natural gas pipelines. Last winter, millions of customers throughout the country suffered high heating bills, along with the cold temperatures, due to inadequate infrastructure.…”