[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 302]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE

  (Mr. WOMACK asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WOMACK. Mr. Speaker, last night in this very Chamber, I heard the 
President talk of an ``all-of-the-above'' energy strategy for our 
Nation. I couldn't agree more. But this is the same President who a few 
days ago rejected the Keystone XL pipeline project, a $7 billion 
trifecta shovel-ready for America: jobs, energy security, and urgent 
logistical relief necessary to move oil to the gulf coast region.
  Count me as one of the disappointed. At a time when we should be 
doing everything we can to be giving American workers a lift, instead 
we take to the bully pulpit and preach envy and division, simply a 
smokescreen for political convenience and expedience.
  Mr. President, if you truly believe in an all-of-the-above strategy, 
if you're genuinely concerned about 8\1/2\ percent unemployment, and if 
you're looking for a bipartisan way to reverse this economic course we 
are on, say ``yes'' to Keystone XL.


                Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair will remind the Members that they 
are to address their remarks to the Chair.

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