You call us today to grow in the knowledge of that love and invite us to receive your blessings. Accept the prayers we offer for our beloved nation, protect it and keep it ever in your sight. Fill this house of representatives with your holy wisdom and may that wisdom lead to right action. Strengthen these representatives and their staffs as they labor for the common good and for what is just in your eyes. May true harmony, lasting freedom and justice be secured for all so that there may be lasting peace. We ask this in your most holy name, amen. The speaker the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 thjonastdsppve the pledge of allegiance today will be led by the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. Marino. Mr. Marino please join me in the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god indivisible, with
Make that will create significant construction and infrastructure jobs. Now, were this just in isolation and it didnt involve the total construction of the forests of canada, if i were a canadian id be pretty upset about that, and perhaps the dirtiest, most environmentally problematic way of extracting fossil fuels from the ground to get these oil sands, the construction jobs might have, you know, might carry the day. But sometimes you have to draw a line. And in this case, you know we also hear its going to lead somehow to Energy Security. Thats interesting because the crude is going to come down without paying any crude, tar stand oil or whatever you want to call it, its going to come down to texas without paying into the Oil Spill Liability trust Fund Creating a potential problem for the future taxpayers of the United States. Go to a refinery in an export zone in texas and it will be refined and then it will be exported. Were exporting millions of gallons of fuel every day. So to so
And i look forward to looking to working with senator cantwell. Our geographic neighbors so to speak with so much shared interests between the states of washington and alaska. We have a lot that we can be working on collaboratively. To i have a very strong collaborative relationship with my colleague from oregon senator wyden, from the committee. I think we set a good tone for this committee, in terms of how we build things and how we work to advance initiatives throughout the process. Having said that, as we embark on their First Business meeting, our markup, i think it is a little unfortunate that we move to markup first, that we did not have the opportunity for the hearing was scheduled yesterday. We had already laid that groundwork, we had invited our agreedupon witnesses, we circulated a background memo that i hope each of you had an opportunity to read and review. It was written by joint staff in preparation for the hearing. We had already gotten testimony from our witnesses, the
Pipeline. The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the title of the bill. The clerk h. R. 3. A bill to improve the keystone x. L. Pipeline approve the keystone x. L. Pipeline. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to House Resolution 19 the bill is considered read, the bill shall be debatable for one hour, equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the committee on transportation and infrastructure. And the chair and ranking minority member of the committee on energy and commerce. The gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. Shuster, the gentleman from oregon, mr. Defazio, the gentleman from kentucky, mr. Wit field and the gentleman from new jersey whitfield, and the gentleman from new jersey, mr. Pallone, each control 15 minutes. Mr. Shuster thank you mr. Speaker. I yield myself such time as i may consume. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. Mr. Shuster i rise today to support h. R. 3, the keystone x. L. Pipeline act, and for
Else. Maybe a different tactic. Do you think its working . No. Not really. Last night a bystander hit in the head with a projectile. Listen to the audio. I have a man down the street. 46 years old. I need a patrol unit here as well. Youre not going to stay and tell at this time. Dispatch, however, did send an ambulance. Last night fires were lit on streets, attacking police with bottles, rocks and shut down two freeways. Police say they arrested 92 people. Helping them were Sheriff Deputies the police chief agreed to talk about the strategy in general z he says you have to have a plan and man power. You also have to separate crowd control, crowd management, from crime control. Two different contingents of officers, one establishing scrimmage lines and deployment units to arrest those committing crimes. You want to do it firm, and fast. You know . You want to go in and grab criminals. Get them out of there. Chp told us they provided teams to do exactly that. We saw a few of them today t