On the recordFebruary 1, 2012
It's an honor to be here before you tonight. There's so much going on in this country, so many threats to our national security, and energy is one of them. I am so proud to be a Member of Congress with the freshmen that I have heard here tonight. They make the rest of us look good, and I'm so grateful for their discussion about energy. It doesn't make any sense to have more energy overall than any country in the world and then to pay billions, and hundreds of billions of dollars, to people, many who don't like us. They want to bring down this Nation, and yet we're enriching them, actually engorging them on our money. And then we have a solution. One little part of this solution is the Keystone pipeline, more oil coming from our friends in Canada, who actually are friends. They don't want to see this country taken down. They don't want to see this country attacked again like it was on 9/11. Then we had a hearing today on energy in our Natural Resources Committee, and we're trying, we were trying to pass legislation out of committee that would allow us to provide more of our own energy. But the wrong-headed approach of this administration and some people on the other side of the aisle that is forcing us to pay billions of dollars to companies that have no good plan for producing energy, but a great plan for bilking, sucking the money out of this administration, ready to throw it on any whim that they can say somehow is a green job.…
