Keystone XL Pipeline

Floor Speech

Mr. STEWART. Madam Speaker, every day when I am talking to constituents, their top concern is always the economy and jobs. They are frustrated--as I am--that we have something like 3.8 million Americans who have been unemployed for more than 27 weeks now. And I am consistently asked by people: What can be done? How can we make this better?

In addition to urging the Senate to pass numerous pieces of jobs legislation that have moved through the House, the President needs to approve the Keystone XL pipeline. It has been more than 2,000 days since the pipeline application was submitted for approval, 2,000 days that the administration has delayed something like 20,000 direct jobs and 120,000 indirect jobs. It took less time to fight and win World War II. It took much less time to build the Empire State Building, and it has taken us much longer to do this than to build the first computer.

If we can win world wars and create an entire industry for computers, we can surely make a decision about the Keystone pipeline. Mr. President, do the right thing. Approve the pipeline.

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