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Record to reflect the views of mr. Van hollen earlier about not having amendments where we can fully discuss in the house the twoyear funding for the syrian rebel army, and also to make sure that we do not have combat troops actively engaged in iraq. But, mr. Speaker, i am rising right now to strongly state my deep disappointment in a version of the Southeast Arizona Land Exchange act that was included in the National Defense authorization. Heres the National Defense authorization bill, and in here are some land bills. Now, one of the land bills in particular that have been included in here is...

For a living wage. You wouldnt have to have legislation about minimum wage if you werent bringing in millions of people illegal and ausing them to compete with people that are trying desperately to find jobs, doing everything they can to find jobs. But we also know that for the First Time Since president carter, over 90 million over 16 Million People who could work, are not looking anymore. With this new five Million People the president is all of a sudden with the stroke of his wand, all of a sudden taken from illegal status to legal status and heres your work papers, all of that is illegal. ...

Show you the project. It runs from hardisty in alberta, canada, all the way down to our refineries in texas along the gulf coast. This project will move 830,000 barrels of oil a day. Some of that will be oil from canada. Some of that will be domestic oil from the back an region bakken region in montana and north dakota. This is part of the building the infrastructure so we can build a comprehensive energy plan for our country. Were producing more and more oil and gas in our country from the shale place in places like the bakken and north dakota and montana. The eagleford in texas. Natural gas ...

And its one of six montana counties that the keystone x. L. Pipeline will route through. Now, circle like a lot of small communities in montana, has experienced the same economic and population declines that towns have faced in recent years. In fact, the county has significant infrastructure needs that have gone unresolved in the wake of a shrinking tax base. Now, for towns like circle, the keystone x. L. Pipeline isnt just about energy. It represents Economic Opportunity and hope for the future. You see mccomb county alone would see 18 million in property tax revenues from the Keystone Pipeli...

I think we understate the importance of this pipeline project and these deliberations to our relationship with our friends in canada. I have no doubt about it because i have seen it and hypocrisy which they have no objection to and then refusing them the same opportunity, that is you want to call about the United States projecting a bad image in conducting a double standard in the world, this is one of them. I look at the states through which the pipeline runs and i happen to look at where the support for the pipeline is, amazing to me how almost every representative and senator in the state w...