It's Time to Stand with the American Worker

Floor Speech

Mr. HUIZENGA of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to implore my colleagues in the Senate and to the President, it's time to stand with the American worker. We're talking about adding 20,000 jobs as we approved the Keystone pipeline coming from Alberta, Canada, down to the gulf shore. But Canada's already a leading source of our oil. They actually give us more oil and produce more oil than Saudi Arabia.

Michigan is actually an excellent example of what happens with that partnership. Enbridge, which is actually a competitor to TransCanada right now, is already looking at increasing its capacity and expanding its pipeline; Marathon Refineries, looking at expanding its capacity to be able to handle these Canadian crudes.

We know that this inflow of Canadian oil is a positive thing. Zero taxpayer dollars are going to be used for this, and it will be put thousands of our American workers back to work at a crucial time.

The oil will be extracted. The question is: Where is it going to go? Is it going to be shipped to the United States and create U.S. jobs, or is it going to Asia to help fund the engine to compete against us?

It's time to stand with the American worker, Mr. President.

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