[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8734]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 AMERICAN ENERGY AND A HEALTHY ECONOMY

  (Mrs. NOEM asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. NOEM. Last weekend, I was speaking with a group of individuals, 
and I talked about the need for a healthy economy and an energy plan 
where we prioritize American energy.
  A woman who was in that meeting stood up, and she shared her story. 
She started to talk about her husband, who had his hours reduced at 
work because of regulations that came out of the ObamaCare bill. She 
talked about her kids, two of them teenagers, who are unable to find 
summer work and how, if they want to go to church during the week, if 
they want to play baseball games, if they want to do daily activities 
that normal, everyday families do, they will put hundreds of miles on 
their car and spend hundreds of dollars on gasoline in trying to make 
it happen.
  That's why our team and I are so committed to dealing with bills that 
directly address the problems that these Americans face. It's why we 
prioritize a healthy economy, a healthy economy that can give certainty 
to these struggling American families. It's important that we pass a 5-
year farm bill; it's important that we make sure that food is 
affordable and safe in this country; it's also important that we focus 
on American energy and on using the natural resources we have at home; 
and it's important that we talk about the Keystone pipeline.
  We are going to continue to work to ensure that our students get 
educations, that they can pay off their loans when they're done, and 
that they can continue to pursue the American Dream--just like we got 
to do decades ago.

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