Lugar Response to State Department Keystone XL Announcement “Secure and reliable oil supplies are vital for our economic recovery and for job creation. The most secure and reliable oil is that which we produce domestically and import from our ally Canada.
PoliticalNews.me - Jun 17,2012 - Lugar Response to State Department Keystone XL Announcement
Senator Dick Lugar (R-IN), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following response to the public release that the State Department will conduct a supplemental environmental impact statement for the Keystone XL oil pipeline project.
“Secure and reliable oil supplies are vital for our economic recovery and for job creation. The most secure and reliable oil is that which we produce domestically and import from our ally Canada. Every day of delay, is another day we are put at risk by hostile foreign oil powers far from our shores,” Lugar said. “Swift approval of the Keystone XL pipeline will help create jobs almost immediately.”
“In my judgment, the Keystone XL pipeline should be approved immediately, not after months or even years of more delay,” Lugar said.
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Dick Lugar is an unwavering advocate of U.S. leadership in the world, strong national security, free-trade and economic growth.
This fifth generation Hoosier is the U.S. Senate's most senior Republican and longest serving Member of Congress in Indiana history.
He is the Republican leader of the Foreign Relations Committee and a member and former chairman of the Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee. He was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1976 and won a sixth term in 2006 with 87 percent of the vote, his fourth consecutive victory by a two-thirds majority.
