Nick Rahall: “I appreciate the gentleman's remarks and his anger. It is, indeed, frustrating. I, again, invite him to fast-track…”

“I appreciate the gentleman's remarks and his anger. It is, indeed, frustrating. I, again, invite him to fast-track without consideration of process, as he has done on this pipeline bill, in order to free us from reliance upon foreign sources of energy. I would hope he would just as quickly fast-track our clean extension of the FAA bill we introduced today in order to fast-track jobs, getting people back to work here in America. There are people that are already sitting at home for the second, going on the third day without jobs. As I noted during my previous remarks, these are good-paying jobs. They are union jobs. A project labor agreement has been entered into that will ensure the protection of these union workers and their families. So I would urge my colleagues to support the pending legislation at the same time that I would urge, again, my chairman to expedite consideration of a clean FAA reauthorization bill that has been introduced today by Representative Costello and myself. U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Washington, DC, June 30, 2011. Hon. John L. Mica, Chairman, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, DC. Dear Chairman Mica:I write to express my serious concerns regarding your decision to discharge the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure from consideration of H.R. 1938, the ``North American-Made Energy Security Act''.…”