[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 500]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      EXPORT LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, there is good news about energy. We 
have untapped natural resources here at home. In the United States, we 
have natural gas that can be turned into liquefied natural gas. Other 
nations don't have this. We have so much natural gas that we can export 
it by selling it as LNG. Not only will exporting LNG bring money and 
energy back home; it will create jobs. This means jobs and capital for 
Americans and American companies.
  Even the Department of Energy says that expanded export of LNG will 
benefit the United States economy. In 2010, the oil and natural gas 
industry added $476 billion to our economy. To top it off, the oil and 
natural gas industry employs 9.2 million people in America. We are 
missing out on this opportunity by not exporting LNG. We've ignored 
this opportunity far too long. Let's stop relying on Middle Eastern 
nations and use more natural gas and export it as LNG.
  And that's just the way it is.

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