Political Quotes

“pipelines are certainly important in supplying our Nation's energy needs. But in Travis County, Texas, when gasoline is to be pumped through a 50-year-old line not designed for gasoline located within a few feet of 11 public schools and across a major source of drinking water, the term ``pipeline safety'' is a conflict. It is an oxymoron. Despite over thousands of Central Texans asking that they place the pipeline somewhere else, the Office of Pipeline Safety has been totally useless. Frank King, for whose son this bill has been named, came all the way from Washington State to Austin, Texas, to meet with us to describe the horror that can develop when pipeline safety is neglected and pipelines are mislocated. This bill does his family absolutely no justice. It has been so weakened that it has even been blessed by the giant oil companies that are trying to impose the Longhorn pipeline on Central Texas neighborhoods. We need a real pipeline safety bill, not a legislative illusion that does more to appease special interests than protect America's families. Reject this illusion tonight.”