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“today I rise to echo the comments made by my colleague, Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah. Throughout Senator Hatch's distinguished career, he has served this Senate and this Nation in a number of major leadership capacities. I am most grateful for his ongoing leadership and the position he has taken in the Senate Western Caucus--that of being chairman of the caucus's Subcommittee on Public Lands. Senator Hatch, along with Senator Moran and I, has laid out a clear path to energy security and job creation. The bill is called the Western Economic Security Today Act, or the WEST Act. President Obama told Congress he would ``keep trying every new idea that works.'' He went on to say he would ``listen to every good proposal, no matter which party comes up with it.'' Well, last year Western Republicans laid out a clear path to energy security and job creation for the Western United States and for the country. The report is entitled ``Jobs Frontier, Breaking Down Washington's Barriers to America's Red, White and Blue Jobs.'' President Obama should listen to and embrace the findings in this report. The House of Representatives has passed key pieces of legislation over the past year from this Jobs Frontier Report. These are pieces of legislation that will begin to generate quality jobs and increase U.S. energy production. These bills tackle key critical issues, such as encouraging energy exploration and production and removing unnecessary EPA regulations.…”