Approval of the Keystone XL Pipeline
Floor Speech
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Mr. KELLY of Pennsylvania. I thank the gentleman.
Mr. Speaker, this is a jobs bill. It is a jobs bill not only in the
House of Representatives, but it is a job bill in the Senate.
Now, in the House of Representatives, Dr. Cassidy's bill is about
creating tens of thousands of jobs for hardworking Americans. It is
about an $8 billion private investment that will not cost the American
taxpayer one cent. It is about energy independence, and it is about
America taking the lead in energy.
For 6 years, this House has passed pieces of legislation that would
have created the Keystone pipeline. Every one of those pieces of
legislation died in the Senate. Now, miraculously--and I will call it a
job bill--the Senate now is entertaining this because of one job.
The tens of thousands of jobs of all these Americans, who you turned
a deaf ear and a blind eye to, are now being answered by the Senate
because of one job, one Senator who has the possibility of losing her
seat because of the Keystone pipeline not being able to go through the
Senate.
Isn't it ironic that we sit here today and we try to spin this into
something it is not? It is truly a jobs bill. It is an American bill.
It is a bill that is going to create billions of dollars in revenue.
And I would just ask my friends on the other side: Please look no
further than last Tuesday. Last Tuesday's vote was a referendum on
incompetency, not on incumbents.
I would like you to please open your eyes and your ears to the
American people and let them rise. Let us create jobs. Let us reach the
energy independence that we need to succeed in the global economy.
This is tomfoolery, what is going on tonight. Is it really about one
job in the Senate or is it about thousands of Americans who have been
held hostage by an administration that refuses to move forward a jobs
bill in a time when they said we have created thousands or saved jobs?
The one job they are trying to save right now is in the Senate,
ladies and gentlemen. It has nothing to do with policy. It is all
politics.
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