[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3811]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             ENERGY IS JOBS

  (Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, you have heard it said many times: 
Energy is jobs. Energy is jobs.
  We have a wealth of resources in our Nation: oil, natural gas, and 
coal. Yet we see gas prices rising to unbelievable rates here in 
America, approaching, in many places, in excess of $4 a gallon. And 
what are we doing about it? Not very much. We've got a permitting 
process that is failing America. And we have an opportunity today to 
show America just how bad that problem is.
  Later today, I'm going to be introducing a bill called the ROAD to 
Jobs Act. It stands for regulatory openness, accountability, and 
disclosure. And we are going to show the American people, through a 
report that is going to be required from the Council on Environmental 
Quality, just how flawed that permitting process is, requiring them to 
show the permits that are in cycle and what the economic implications 
are of not authorizing permits to go after America's resources.

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