On the recordFebruary 16, 2012
America is at its best when we're not hypocritical and when we don't shoot ourselves in the foot. This Markey amendment does both. We insist that China play by the rules. In fact, they've been hoarding their raw materials and holding them back from export to America, which harms American companies. We just won an important ruling around the world that says China has to stop that. Yet here we are on the House floor, trying to do the exact same thing to our export of natural gas, and we're going to be called on it just like we called it out on China. Secondly, besides being hypocritical, this is going to kill American jobs. We need not just to buy American; we need to sell American around the world: our cars, our ag products, our electronics, computers, and, yes, our natural gas. That's how we grow America's economy. I urge defeat.
