Lee Terry

Why are many of us on the House floor tonight after regular business talking about the Keystone Pipeline? Because it's a win-win--20,000 immediate contracting support jobs for the construction of a 1,700-mile pipeline from Alberta, Canada…

Thank you, Mr. Barton. At this time I would like to yield such time as he may consume to the other gentleman from Texas, Judge Carter.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today, we are going to discuss energy security, American jobs, and the Keystone XL pipeline. At this time I yield such time as he may consume to the chairman emeritus of the Energy and Commerce Committee, Mr. Joe…

I thank the gentleman from Virginia. I'd like to just take the last couple of minutes to close here. What we have is a $7 billion infrastructure project for the United States of America that will immediately employ 20,000 workers. It's a…

I thank you for your support for this effort for American jobs. At this time I'd like to recognize another one of our freshman phenoms on the Energy and Commerce Committee, the gentleman from Virginia, Morgan Griffith.

I thank the gentleman from Texas. I do appreciate your insight and your support. Let me take this opportunity--we've had two speakers already that have talked in support of the Keystone pipeline. Now let me give kind of a tutorial of what…

Thank you, Mr. Sullivan, and I appreciate your support on this issue. At this time I'd like to recognize the gentleman from Illinois, one of the new phenoms on our Energy and Commerce Committee, Mr. Kinzinger.

It just seems logical that as we have a bill to extend unemployment insurance for those unemployed that we also have a measure for them to become employed, and that's the Keystone pipeline. It is a $7 billion infrastructure project that is…

The Department of Commerce was troubled that ICANN was moving forward with the gTLD expansion without having proven that the benefits of expansion outweighed the costs.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I think coupling--putting the unemployment extension, the tax holiday, the doc fix, and a real jobs bill together--which is what the American people have been telling Congress for the entire year, that they want to…

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

I thank the chairman and appreciate the gentleman from Boston's arguments here suggesting that this bill somehow exempts arsenic and all these poisons. The reality is it does not. It's an unnecessary amendment. It, one, is to make a point…

I am amused, humored by the opposition, all hailing from our greatest cities in the United States, urban areas. I would like to read a note that I received from a rancher in Nebraska and our Nebraska cattlemen representing those who are…

I urge Congress to put the long-term interests of the American people as a top priority and not rush to build the Keystone pipeline.

The point of this is to avoid the politics and get to the jobs.

My constituents and I--and discussions with many of our political leaders throughout the State--firmly believe that the Corps of Engineers must return to their basic principles and purpose of the dam system along the Missouri River, which…

I am sorry, but you can't have eight different items, many of which are in conflict with each other, as your priorities.

Let's get back to the Corps' roots and initial purposes here, and control the floods.

``It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.'' That was said by our 19th President, Rutherford B. Hayes. It is a timely and insightful comment. The United States now is the debtor. We are $15 trillion in debt, rising at a yearly clip…

I'm the author of one of the bills sitting in the Senate, the ``forgotten 15.'' This is a bill that will instantaneously create 20,000 jobs and spin off a potential 100,000 to 200,000 additional jobs and put us on the path to energy…

the reality here is that we are only one lawsuit away from you being forced to enforce the rule on farming activities

It would be helpful because, frankly, from my perspective--and the rhetoric from at least the two top people on this committee has been obstruction and diversion.

Today, I rise in support of H.R. 358, The Protect Life Act. This bill would amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to prevent federal funding for abortion or abortion coverage through any program authorized by the…

We are lucky in Nebraska. Our unemployment rate is currently around 4.2%. Personally, I'd like to see it be an even smaller number. Without passage of H.R. 2681 and H.R. 2250, we will see job loss in Nebraska. With regards to the Boiler…

I appreciate what my tax-and-spend uber-liberal Democrat friends state in their statements here.