[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14168]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                  JOBS

  (Mr. MEEHAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MEEHAN. Madam Speaker, few come to this Congress with more 
interest in protecting air and water than myself, as I did as a 
prosecutor who actually used the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act for 
the good of the country. We must find balance.
  Madam Speaker, I am here today because I woke up this morning with 
the thought of steelworkers on my mind, some of the 1,500 steelworkers 
whose jobs are now at risk since the Sun Oil Refinery announced last 
week that it is getting out of the refining business--in essence, the 
inability to compete because of the overregulation that we have--and 
these jobs are going to be shipped overseas.
  Good union-paying American jobs that could be here, because of the 
policies that are coming out of Washington, are being destroyed and 
sent overseas. It is counterintuitive; it is counterproductive. We must 
use common sense.
  We can't let the rhetoric stand in the way of reality. We must fight 
for the future of those jobs while we fight for clean air.

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