[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 7274]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             MORE AMERICAN ENERGY MEANS MORE AMERICAN JOBS

  (Ms. JENKINS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JENKINS. Mr. Speaker, the President seems to be getting a lot of 
information from the news rather than from his own administration 
lately. He says he was unaware of the IRS targeting conservatives, 
unaware of the Department of Justice seizing reporters' phone records, 
and unaware of the HHS Secretary fundraising for ObamaCare until he saw 
it on the news.
  The next story the President should read will be about our bipartisan 
solution to create jobs and greater energy security for America--the 
Keystone XL pipeline. It really is incomprehensible that the President, 
after 1,700 days, would continue to stand in the way of the largest 
shovel-ready project in this country.
  It's really this simple: more American energy means more American 
jobs. With millions of hardworking Americans out of work, gas prices 
skyrocketing, and China outcompeting the United States for access to 
Canada's oil supply, we need the Keystone XL pipeline.
  It is time to put hardworking American families ahead of politics and 
focus on real solutions.

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