[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 65 (Thursday, April 15, 2021)]
[House]
[Pages H1837-H1838]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           WHERE ARE THE JOBS

  (Mr. WESTERMAN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WESTERMAN. Madam Speaker, it has been 85 days since President 
Biden halted the Keystone pipeline. We have yet to see those green jobs 
he promised. Promises won't pay the bills.
  We stand with the hardworking Americans who were forced out of work 
and ask this administration, Where are the jobs? Knee-jerk policies 
here in Washington have life-altering implications for people like Mr. 
Neal Crabtree, a welder and union foreman from my district who lost his 
job on the Keystone pipeline.
  Of course, if you bring up this topic with Climate Czar John Kerry, 
he will tell you all these workers can switch to working in solar 
energy.
  Madam Speaker, from looking at salary data, a welding wand in the 
hand of a highly-skilled pipeline welder is worth more than two 
screwdrivers in the hands of solar panel installers.
  These job-killing energy policies are yet another example of how out 
of touch the Biden administration is with the men and women who keep 
our country going.
  Talk is cheap, action is harder. If President Biden is going to 
continue promising these elusive green jobs, then he needs a long-term 
plan in

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place. A plan to have a plan is not enough.
  Neal Crabtree and thousands of Americans like him are the people the 
Democrats are choosing to forget. We won't forget them.

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