Political Quotes

“Reclaiming my time, I would say to the gentlewoman that the bill allows lots of time for each stage of the permitting process to cover and discover ways to make a project more secure, to make it safer, to improve it in a variety of different ways; and that the gentlewoman's amendment would harm the ability to do that, not help, because it would slow down the process under which we would have these new projects able to begin construction and then be completed. With that, I urge my colleagues to oppose the amendment. I yield back the balance of my time. The CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee). The question was taken; and the Chair announced that the noes appeared to have it.”