Political Quotes

“Thank you, And I appreciate that. I'm not sure about phenom, but I'm very appreciative to be on the Energy and Commerce Committee. We have a lot of issues in my district. For those of you who are watching this who aren't familiar with my district, I represent southwest Virginia. It is a big energy-producing region of the State of Virginia. And in Virginia, we understand that we should use our own resources to create jobs. So I come here today for jobs to be created in the United States--not in Virginia directly, but in another part of this great Nation, because the issues are often the same. And for some reason, this administration is standing in the way of the creation of jobs in the energy industry. In Virginia, we have asked repeatedly to be able to drill off our coast in order to find oil and natural gas. We want to use our resources to create jobs. We started asking for this in Virginia back in 2004. At that time we had Democrat Governors, and they blocked our efforts to send this to the Federal Government. Later, having a change of heart, one of the Governors decided, as they were on their way out the door, that they would send the request forward. But to this date the President has not realized that we can create jobs. But our jobs, unlike the jobs in Nebraska and other parts of the United States affected by Keystone, they would be several years down the road. {time} 1530 What we have here is the Nation's best shovel-ready project. In reality, it's ready to go.…”