[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 41 (Wednesday, March 12, 2014)]
[House]
[Page H2309]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE

  (Mr. STEWART asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. STEWART. Madam Speaker, every day when I am talking to 
constituents, their top concern is always the economy and jobs. They 
are frustrated--as I am--that we have something like 3.8 million 
Americans who have been unemployed for more than 27 weeks now. And I am 
consistently asked by people: What can be done? How can we make this 
better?
  In addition to urging the Senate to pass numerous pieces of jobs 
legislation that have moved through the House, the President needs to 
approve the Keystone XL pipeline. It has been more than 2,000 days 
since the pipeline application was submitted for approval, 2,000 days 
that the administration has delayed something like 20,000 direct jobs 
and 120,000 indirect jobs. It took less time to fight and win World War 
II. It took much less time to build the Empire State Building, and it 
has taken us much longer to do this than to build the first computer.
  If we can win world wars and create an entire industry for computers, 
we can surely make a decision about the Keystone pipeline. Mr. 
President, do the right thing. Approve the pipeline.

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