Lee Terry

I would respectfully state that I disagree, and I think, frankly, putting an agency in charge of developing rules, even with collaboration, is dooming that industry.

Homeland Security under my personal view has been a disaster. And to put them in charge of cybersecurity of any critical infrastructure scares the hell out of me frankly.

Any sort of legislative effort to provide overbroad regulation or certification regimes will surely come with unintended consequences.

I believe that most of my colleagues on this committee share my optimism that a collaborative, active cyber defense capability is actually achievable.

I find this to be the most vital guiding principle in considering how to enhance our Nation's cybersecurity.

I don't know about the court case where it really raised some serious issues regarding the credibility behind the rule, itself. What I do know is that, by passing this bill today, we basically push the restart button so that the entities…

First, I want to mention to my friend from New Jersey that we have several bills, including that of the Keystone pipeline, sitting over in the Senate. They're bills that will create tens of thousands of jobs, maybe hundreds of thousands of…

They don't take. * * * The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Nebraska will suspend. The time of the gentleman from Illinois has expired. Announcement by the Acting Chair The Acting CHAIR. Members should not interject remarks after the…

Will the gentleman yield so I can answer the question? The answer to that question would be that each State has set up a due process law----

None of us are smiling over the fact that the President killed the pipeline that would have created 20,000 jobs and that would have provided us a newer level of energy security. This amendment, in essence, is a way of killing this…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. This is one of those myths that we must try to dispel. I guess if you say it enough times, some people will start believing it. But the reality is, why would you build a pipeline 1,700 miles…

So, politics of the extreme put us in this position. But let's ask, who benefits from this oil coming into the United States from our partner, Canada, and being refined and used in the United States of America? If we have this, everyone…

I claim the time in opposition to the amendment. The CHAIR. The gentleman from Nebraska is recognized for 5 minutes.

The language that we're discussing at this current time is allowing the Keystone pipeline a path forward. It's based on a bill I introduced back in September, which is H.R. 3548. Keep in mind that the President of the United States killed…

There is only one silver bullet that exists to prevent cyber crimes. That is to completely disconnect your computer from any network.

Those of us who live and work along the proposed path of this pipeline applaud him for placing our welfare ahead of the interests of big oil companies.

Short circuiting the review process would be an injustice and, in fact, a gross injustice to all of us that have to live and work along the proposed path of this pipeline.

It is not often that Congress can take a single step that will simultaneously help reduce the future price at the gas pump, strengthen the Nation's energy security, and create literally tens of thousands of jobs.

Perhaps it is time for the free passes to come to an end.

I think one of the key points here that has been missed in the State Department's testimony... is that they are using Nebraska as the excuse to deny the permit.

It befuddles most Americans as polling has shown that this President denied the permit, and the jobs that would be created...

It defies logic to me that when you have a transportation system that the State Department even testified was safer, the safest means of transport, the most environmentally safe transport that there be arguments that it not add to our…

The absolute certainty is that the prices will go up, shortages will exist, our economy will suffer.

TransCanada has built a mountain of distrust among the ordinary citizens of our State and either with their voluntary agreement to move the pipeline out of the Sandhills we remain very skeptical.

We do not feel that a foreign corporation has any right to take our land for their private use and gain, especially when there has been no determination that this project is in the national interest.