Randy Weber: “Thank you. Great questions. I didn't talk about the fact that I have five ports in my district on the Gulf Coast of…”

“Thank you. Great questions. I didn't talk about the fact that I have five ports in my district on the Gulf Coast of Texas, more than any other Member of Congress. Some have four. I have five LNG plants, LPG plants. Sixty percent of the Nation's jet fuel is produced in my district, 60 percent of the Nation's jet fuel. An extremely large amount, a classified amount of the military's fuel. They won't tell us how much, but a large amount of the military's fuel. Strategic petroleum reserves abound in my district. Again, we can't find out how much, but it is a huge amount. From a foreign affairs initiative--and I have been over to Japan, I have been over to the Philippines, I have been to Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan--they want our LNG. They would much rather buy it from us than from the Russian bear. Don't you know the people in Ukraine would much rather be dependent on us because we are not a dictatorship, at least not supposed to be, and we are not going to cut off their fuel because we have a disagreement with the way the Russian separatists activate or believe? So it is a foreign affairs, it is a foreign policy initiative. As I said earlier, it helps make the world safer. It helps create jobs over here. It helps with our balance of trade, or imbalance of trade. It is an important issue, and it is one that bears supporting.…”