Louie Gohmert: “Well, my friend indicates it's unfair for Texas. But as former chairman of Energy, Joe Barton, notes, with about…”

“Well, my friend indicates it's unfair for Texas. But as former chairman of Energy, Joe Barton, notes, with about two-thirds of the refining capacity for the whole country being in Texas, what this means is regardless how anybody feels about Texas, I know there are a lot of people that don't care for the State, but regardless of how people feel about it, when two-thirds of the refining for the gasoline they put in their cars is coming from the State of Texas, and the EPA has declared war against Texas, violating the laws of this land in order to politically stick it to Texas, the price that will be paid is by rank and file folks across the country. And, as we've seen, manufacturers--we had colleagues across the aisle talking about jobs, jobs, jobs--the things that this administration are doing are killing jobs. They were going to create all these jobs and create all these jobs, and then they did such a terrible job of creating jobs, in fact, we were going in the wrong direction. So then they went to saying, well, we are saving jobs, when the fact is they are driving jobs overseas. We're losing manufacturing jobs constantly. And this very thing we are talking about tonight is one of the reasons. There is so much uncertainty with regard to business in this country.”