[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 7487]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               ENERGY II

  (Mrs. BLACKBURN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. My constituents are asking me this question: What 
does this administration have against expanding energy production?
  More American energy means more American jobs. We all know that that 
is true. It also would mean lower energy costs, stronger national 
security, and a boost to our economy, a boost that we badly need with 
12 million Americans out of work. Yet the President has seemed to 
stymie the energy sector at every single turn. We're going to give him 
the opportunity to change that record as we bring another bill forward 
that would approve moving forward with the northern route of the 
Keystone pipeline.
  Now, we all know that burdensome overregulation by this 
administration has caused energy output domestically on our Federal 
lands to decrease significantly--about 30 percent. It hampers our 
ability to be productive.

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