Lee Terry: “I am baffled, too, so I appreciate your comments. Mr. Speaker, I just want to sum up here: 2,001 days since the permit…”

“I am baffled, too, so I appreciate your comments. Mr. Speaker, I just want to sum up here: 2,001 days since the permit for this pipeline was filed and over 22,000 pages of scientific review. This permit has been sitting around longer than it took the United States to win World War II. This permit has been here longer than it took Lewis and Clark to explore the Louisiana Purchase and come back. Eleven Federal agencies have participated in reviewing the Keystone pipeline--11 Federal agencies on top of the scientific studies. Every State in which the proposed Keystone pipeline route goes through has approved the pipeline and has independently reviewed it. Six weeks ago, the President, right behind my right shoulder here, said that he would take out his phone and his pen and would act. Mr. President, tonight, we ask you to pick up your phone. Call Prime Minister Harper and tell him, Yes, I am ready to sign the permit. Then take out your permit, sign it, and let's get 42,000 people back to work.”