Putting the Gulf of Mexico Back to Work Act
Floor Speech
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Mr. LANDRY. Madam Speaker, my Democrat colleagues are trying to distract us from the central issue, which is jobs. We're trying to put people back to work, but instead of putting people back to work, we're having to deal with procedural gamesmanship. The American people are tired of games. They want results.
Last night, on the phone while I checked on my constituents who are preparing for floodwaters not seen in some 50 years, constituents who may lose their homes, one gentleman asked me, he said, Congressman, when are we going to get back to work? I will need my offshore job to pay for the damages that this flood brings us.
Shockingly, I said, do you understand that these floodwaters may not recede for months? He looked at me and he replied, like any good old Cajun, sha, them floodwaters were sent here by God, and it will recede; the same God who gave me my two hands and my two feet, so that I can get back to work.
My job is gone because of a man and my government, not God. Please tell them that we are not only ready to get back to work, we need to get back to work.
Now, my friends, how do you say no to him?
How do you say no to a people who have endured over two calamities per year since 2005. Katrina, Rita, Ike, Gustav, the Deepwater Horizon incident, the Mississippi River floods that are coming upon us?
These people simply want to get back to work. They understand that putting them back to work will ease the price at the pump they too pay.
Let's put our differences aside. Let's put America back to work. Let's crank up those steel mills in Pennsylvania. Let's tell the boys in Illinois that we need those Caterpillar engines. Let's tell the Texans, the Louisianans, the Mississippians, the ones in Florida, Alabama, Arkansas, and Oklahoma, that jobs are coming back to the gulf.
Let's fuel our plants with American energy and American oil. No more shall we beg those who hate us for their oil. America is on her way back, and it starts in the Gulf of Mexico. Let's put the gulf back to work so we can put America back to work.
Madam Speaker, I withdraw my point of order.
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