Political Quotes

“I want to thank the chairwoman for bringing this bill to the floor. Madam Speaker, I come from western Pennsylvania, home of the first oil well, home of coal and steel, home of the first nuclear power plant, home of the fracking revolution, and most importantly, home of the people who built all of these things. And it is as a western Pennsylvanian today, not as a Democrat or Republican, but as a western Pennsylvanian that I am proud to have supported and contributed provisions to this bill. Both Democrats and Republicans will vote for this bill tomorrow--they will. And that is how it should be. Somehow people got the idea that energy was one more topic that should be politicized in America, and they are wrong. The future of energy is about jobs, not red jobs, not blue jobs, just jobs. And we know how to create jobs in America when we use our government to win the race to new technologies. That is why I have never thought the best analogy here is the New Deal, it is the Manhattan Project. Back then, when we had a threat from outside our country, it required us to double down on all the nuclear science and then get it out of the lab and into the factories, into the power plants, into the construction camps. We created jobs. And just like that was a competition against Germany, and just like today, we still thank the Greatest Generation for refusing to tolerate Germany beating us to the bomb. Today, we should refuse to tolerate China beating us to those jobs.…”