Much. Thank you mr. President and members of the senate, mr. Speaker numbers of the senate, Lieutenant Governor, members of the Governors Council and including that constitutional officers elected. Thank you for being here. Former senator scott brown governor Chris Christie we salute you. [applause] [applause] i have always admired and appreciated you both for years and i have admired your commitment to serve its for all of us and i thank you very much for being with us today. [applause] [applause] to my fellow citizens and other distinguished guests, my thanks to all of you for being here. With great humility and high honor that i assume the office of the governor of massachusetts and i am well where of the authorities and have come up as i take office, but this is part of serving and protecting the people of this great state. And the obligation to always live up to that. The people have invested in me for the title of governor for the next four years and i am also a holder of life on
Together and its not going to look like these old models of lobbying, and i tell you what that looks like inside congress is this tendency to use a Campaign Technology for governing and what its doing is making governing look like campaigning. I think people who look at congress can see this. It cant be petition sites and cant be like the correspondence Management System of congress sorts sentiment, not substance. Unless we figure out a way to privilege certain kinds of information that match institutional functions, like the subcommittee institutionally responsible for . That is the information it needs at the right time for authentic high reputation sources. So its this kind of like my dream is that were going to move toward a future where this community that has largely commercial interests in the space, reserves or helps create some new rules because i feel like every single time its these process rules that are just missing and they really dont exist right now for civic social nor
Bases as for jobs in so many congressional districts. And i have heard very conservative members of congress say government doesnt create jobs, it destroys them, and all that sort of thing. It doesnt apply to the military base in my district. If we lost that, we would lose jobs. Is there anyway around this . I dont know how, other than a fundamental change. I remember seeing many years ago, a map of where the subcontracts were, i think it was the b2 bomber. There was a pin the companies are smart enough to be sure that this happens, because they know the reality of it. I think to some extent Representative Democracy is inherently inefficient. That doesnt mean there arent things you carve out and ask government to do because they only do it. You probably do want to minimize them because its not going to be as efficient if you have a truly competitive industry. And yet we ought to at least acknowledge that the base Culture Commission turned out to be a very effective mechanism and we clo
Overseas. So i really dont see this as something we should preempt the laws of the United States. 2. 5 million comments. Republicans dont care much about the comments. 2. 5 million comments that are still being evaluated, raising concerns about various aspects of this project. But here, i will say, bad legislation, good politics, we are trying to help someone get elected to the senate who is currently a member of the house, the senate is potentially moving ahead with this bill. The house, with very little notice, zidded they would bring up this bill that we have passed in one version or another eight previous times. And use of the house of representatives to promotes candidacy to the United States senate, which i think is a really a disgrace to this institution. With that, i would reserve the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from oregon reserves. Mr. Shuster its now my pressure to yield two minutes to the subcommittee chairman of railroads and pipelines, mr. De
Gallons of diesel yet our going to take w, were this tar sand goop and process it in the u. S. And export it. Its not going to help the processors. And then there are minor environmental issues. Tar sands do create 81 more Greenhouse Gas than most other forms of fossil fuel extraction. They are going to destroy forever, forever, large portions of forests. Im sure that is a canadian issue. If i lived in canada, they would be protesting. I dont. We dont need to build a pipeline there. They will use precious Water Resources and create waste pits that will be polluted with the extract, except for the part that which is shipped south to be processed and shipped overseas. So i really dont see this as something we should preempt the laws of the United States. 2. 5 million comments. Republicans dont care much about the comments. 2. 5 million comments that are still being evaluated, raising concerns about various aspects of this project. But here, i will say, bad legislation, good politics, we