. >>> that was martha roby discussing the honest budget act which would make it harder for congress the pass appropriations bill before it is d dopted. it. >> uld wo make it would make it budget spending in less than one year, and prevent congress from spending ovrnlg ing overages th elsewhere. it would stop the sidestepping of programs over five years and count transfers from the general fund to the highway trust fund as extra costs and not something that is considered to be neutral. again, more on that if you want some of the details available online at al.com which is in alabama website that focuses on stories dealing with alabama legislators and you were hearing the comments of representative martha roby, a republican from alabama. this is washington today on c-span radio. oregon has a new representative susan bonamecci, and she replaces david woo who resigned in a sex scandal after it was announce had he was having a relationship with an 18-year-old. she is a former state senator and defeated a republican candidate who ran a year ago with with most of the votes counted, and the rep

and i would just say, i appreciate my friend and colleague martha roby. she's got energy and drive and she's filed this legislation in the house last night that we filed in the senate last year. i believe we will be on the road to moving forward with legislation that will create more honesty in our budgeting process. many of these are technical, but they're real. it will create more honesty, more fairness, more ability for understand how much congress is spending and it will be good for america. and i think in the end, few if any of these, proposals would engender any real good government objection. martha, thank you for your good work, and i'll turn it over to you. >> well, thank you so much, senator sessions. and what a tremendous honor to distinguished members of congress in support of the honest budget act. and on behalf of the american people. i am pleased to introduce the house companion bill to senator sessions' senate bill. i also want to thank all of my freshmen colleagues and let me mention representative huizenga. 13 months ago our freshman cla

and i would just say i appreciate my friend and colleague, martha roby. she's got energy and drive, and she's filed this legislation in the house last night that we filed in the senate last year. i believe we are on the road to moving forward with legislation that will create more honesty in our budgeting process. many of these are technical, but they're real. it'll create more honesty, more fairness, more ability for the american people to understand how much congress is spending, and it would be good for america. and i think in the end few, if any, of these proposals would engender any real good government objection. so, martha, thank you for your good work, and i'll turn it over to you. >> well, thank you so much, senator sessions. and what a tremendous honor to be standing here with these distinguished members of congress in support of the honest budget act and on behalf of the american people. i am pleased to introduce the house companion bill to senator sessions' senate bill. i also want to thank all of my freshmen colleagues, and let me mention rep

i yield to my good friend from alabama, martha roby. mrs. roby: i thank the gentleman for hosting this very important leadership hour tonight. mr. speaker, i rise today to express my extreme disappointment over president obama's decision to block the keystone pipeline by rejecting an application to build an oil pipeline a i -- across the u.s. and canada border. i think every american should be aware of the consequences. more than 100,000 jobs could be created over the life of the project, including an estimated 20,000 immediate american jobs in construction and manufacturing and oil accounts for 37% of u.s. energy demand with 71% directed to fuels used in transportation. that is equally true of a mother who drives her children to school as it is of the business owner who operates a fleet of delivery vehicles. when the price of gasoline increases, americans hurt. and the price of gasoline increased 81 cents per gallon in 2011 alone. i support an all-of-the-above approach to energy, which includes opening up new areas for american energy explo

martha roby, republican from montgomery, voted no. jo bonner, republican from mobile voted no. senator richard shelby voted no. alabama senator jeff sessions voted no. each of these individual congressmen and senators voted no, again, because they share a deep-rooted concern for the financial stability of our country and the impact this legislation can have on that. in sum, i voted against h.r. 3630 for a variety of reasons, but i'm going to mention three. first, h.r. 3630 disproportionately targets and burdens american federal workers, takes their hard-earned money and diverts it those who don't work for it. that's not fair. that's not good policy. second, america's seniors have asked me to protect social security and medicare benefits because they paid for and earned them during their working lifetimes. americans support social security because everyone contributes their fair share to their own social security retirement benefits. social security is not welfare. social security is an earned entitlement. h.r. 3630 undermines social security's and medicare's foundation by threa