[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 7276]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                         THE KEYSTONE PIPELINE

  (Ms. FOXX asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, it's been almost 5 years since the application 
to build the Keystone XL pipeline was filed. It's also been almost 5 
years that Americans have been waiting for the jobs and energy security 
Keystone would provide. How much longer will President Obama make us 
wait?
  American families expect our government to pursue the least 
expensive, most reliable domestic energy. Jobless Americans expect that 
their President won't stand in the way of economic relief. But on both 
fronts, President Obama's choice to cede to environmental special 
interests and block the Keystone pipeline in 2011 did the opposite. It 
denied thousands of jobless Americans the chance at high-paying work 
and blocked a direct connection between refineries in Texas and 
affordable energy in Canada.
  But what's more audacious about the President's economically 
indefensible action is the fact that it is groundless. The President's 
own State Department concluded ``no significant'' environmental damage 
would be caused by Keystone's completion.
  The Keystone pipeline has jobs to offer. Why is the President turning 
those jobs away?

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