[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 182]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                          KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, today there are thousands of Americans 
who are forced to pay $3.50 a gallon just to fill up their car to get 
to work. And there are more than 14 million other Americans who can't 
get to work because they don't have jobs.
  Meanwhile, the little fellow from the desert, Ahmadinejad of Iran, 
threatens to block the Strait of Hormuz and thus control oil shipments 
and the international price of oil.
  The Keystone XL pipeline would bring 700,000 barrels of oil per day 
from our stable, friendly ally, Canada. And it would bring it down to 
my district in southeast Texas. It would create at least 20,000 jobs 
and over 100,000 related jobs. But the administration arbitrarily just 
said ``no'' to jobs, ``no'' to energy, and ``no'' to national security. 
This pipeline is in the national interest. Build the pipeline. Make 
unstable Middle Eastern countries irrelevant. Put Americans back to 
work, lower the cost of energy.
  While the administration continues to say ``no'' to Americans, 
Congress has the obligation and legal ability to say ``yes'' to 
America.
  And that's just the way it is.

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