{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://web.archive.org/web/20141114195017/http://fitzpatrick.house.gov/press-release/fitzpatrick-house-back-keystone-pipeline-approval", "Fitzpatrick, House Back Keystone Pipeline Approval", "2014-11-14", "2014", "2014-11", "Republican", "House", "PA", "Michael Fitzpatrick", "F000451", "web.archive.org", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Congressman Mike Fitzpatrick (PA-8) released the following statement Friday following the House passage of H.R. 5682 which would immediately certify the Secretary of State\u2019s Final Environmental Impact Statement from nearly a year ago and approve the Keystone XL Pipeline:\n Today, with resounding bipartisan support, the House passed its ninth legislative approval of the Keystone XL Pipeline \u2013 the most studied pipeline in American history. This project will create and sustain thousands of American jobs and play an integral part in our nation\u2019s energy revolution. An \u2018all-of-the-above\u2019 American energy strategy is what American businesses need to grow our economy and create jobs and what American families need to reduce their costs at the pump or grocery store check-out.\u00a0It is my hope that the Senate and White House finally take action on this common sense proposal. Furthermore, it is my hope that with change coming to the Senate, leaders there will also take action on the more than 300 House-passed bills waiting in that chamber.\n \nReports show that, in a blaze of partisan glory, the Senate is expected to vote on a measure to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline after years of obstruction by Democratic leaders even as the project enjoys bipartisan, majority support. Fitzpatrick addressed that topic head on during his remarks during H.R. 5682\u2019s House debate (WATCH HERE):\n Mr. Speaker, for years, I, and members of this body, have come to the floor in support of the Keystone pipeline project \u2013 asking the Senate and White House to put politics aside in favor of this critical project.\nWith bipartisan support, the House has passed eight separate pieces of legislation to clear the way for the approval of the most studied pipeline in American history. Yet, each time, these measures were blocked in the Senate and condemned by a president crippled by indecision on a project that would put tens-of-thousands of Americans to work.\nOnce again, I rise in support of the Keystone XL pipeline \u2013 joining my colleagues in both parties in backing H.R. 5682 which would immediately certify the Secretary of State\u2019s Final Environmental Impact Statement from nearly a year ago, and truly put our nation on a course toward American energy independence.\nSadly, while the House has continued to take definitive, bipartisan action to advance this critical goal, it appears the Senate has waited only until politically advantageous to do so - even as it enjoys majority support in that chamber.\nWhile I am pleased about the Senate\u2019s new-found interest in the wide-ranging benefits of this common sense project which will grow our economy and strengthen our national security, it is a shame that it took election-year politics \u2013 not the best interests of the American workers and families they represent \u2013 for Senate leaders to act.\nThis pipeline is a vital piece of a plan that creates better jobs and more opportunity and I encourage the Senate - and president - to deliver on the promise of embracing an \u201call-of-the-above\u201d energy strategy that works for the American people.\n \nThe Keystone XL Pipeline is supported by both labor and business organization ranging from the International Brotherhood of Operating Engineers to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. In describing his support for the project, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper recently noted, \u201cIt\u2019s very clear that is in the economic job creation interests of both of our countries, in the energy security interests of North America and a critical step in environmental protection than the alternatives.\u201d\n###\nCongressman Mike Fitzpatrick is serving his third term in the U.S. House of Representatives. He represents Pennsylvania\u2019s 8th\u00a0district which includes all of Bucks County as well as a portion of Montgomery County. 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