[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 73]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                          KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE

  (Mr. QUAYLE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. QUAYLE. Mr. Speaker, it's not too often that a President of the 
United States has the opportunity with one swipe of his pen to increase 
private sector jobs by thousands of employees, while at the same time 
increasing our energy independence and our energy security. But that's 
exactly what's going to happen with the Keystone XL pipeline.
  Unfortunately, the President, earlier this year, punted on that 
decision and punted it past 2013, even though his own State Department 
said that there would not be a significant impact on the environment. 
But we gave him another chance.
  Unfortunately, there are reports that he will reject the permit for 
the Keystone XL pipeline. The thing that's confusing, Mr. Speaker, is 
that he's been saying that we can't wait for job creation. But with 
this decision, he's saying that we can wait for thousands and thousands 
of private sector jobs here in the United States and that we can wait 
for energy security. Mr. Speaker, this is the wrong decision at the 
wrong time. We need better decisions from the administration.

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