mr. duncan. i now would like to recognize mr. rivera for five minutes for questions. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. and thank you to all the witnesses for being here today. i want to try to hone in on this issue of mexico and its ability to carry out primary responsibility in protecting its citizens and also the impact that the diversification of criminal activity and criminal organizations in mexico -- what are the types of criminal insurgencies against the state may be developing and whether they're making headway. i'm wondering if perhaps all three of you could comment, your thoughts on the drug cartels and whether they have drug cartels in mexico and whether they have indeed diversified into a variety of illicit activities and what that comprises. maybe we can start with secretary brownfield. >> sure, congressman. and i'll give you my answer filtered through not just my experience of the past year dealing directly with the merida initiative in mexico but the prior three years when i was in colombia. as i suggested in a

mr. duncan, and again, i think this is and cme said at the beginning we are exporting the product now, socertainly this is the addition of the canadian crude into our market and our refining is simply providing more supply diversity, allow us to produce the fuel we need here and when it makes sense we are certainly going to be able to export products as well. we import and export but more importantly dhaka canadian crude coming to the gulf coast refinery is replacing crude oil that we had been bringing from venezuela and mexico sending more products overseas to asia and elsewhere and mexico production simply on the decline. and we need to replace that and it's not only in places it will be even more and that does improve our overall energy and national security. >> as we adjourn, let me just close with the comment again of the prime minister of canada. this was several days after the obama administration announced the keystone deily. primm minister steven harper had had a face-to-face with chinese hu jintao and afterwards to the press. these were his words. the decision by the united stat

mr. duncan. the chair: the gentleman from tennessee is recognized for two minutes. mr. duncan: thank you, mr. chairman. i rise in strong support of this bill and i thank the gentleman from texas, chairman smith, for yielding me this time, and i commend both him and the gentleman from kentucky, mr. davis, for bringing this bill to the floor to us at this time. thomas donahue, president of the u.s. chamber of commerce, in the speech to the jobs summit said, taken collectively the regulatory activity now under way is overwhelmingly beyond anything we have ever seen, that we risk moving this country away from a government of the people to a government of regulators. i want to straighten out one thing, mr. speaker. this bill does not do away with any of the thousands and thousands of laws and rules and regulations that are already on the books. it applies only to new regulations which will cost businesses and the consumer over $100 million each. i think the american people would be very surprised if they thought the congress did not already act on legislation and laws that wo

mr. duncan. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. duncan: thank you, mr. speaker. there are about two points i want to bring up in support of the bill before us today. thomas jefferson said this a wise and frugal government which shall restrain men from injuring one another which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned, that is the sum of good government. i believe that america works better when hardworking americans keep more of the money that they earn. keep more of their paycheck. that's why i support the payroll tax cut provision in this bill. the second point, mr. speaker, is this. the administration can be for jobs or the administration can support a radical environmentalist policy. mr. speaker, i believe they are mutually exclusive and you cannot support both. the keystone pipeline is a segue to job creation in this nation. do you remember the jobs created in the 1970's with the alaskan pipeline? i do. the keyst

mr. duncan and asked if he would yield to me for five seconds. >> thank you, mr. chairman. gentlemen -- >> hill to me for five seconds. >> one observation, mr. stockton police al qaeda is the enemy. welcome about this at the pakistani television, which carried out the 10 square bombing in new york. not just al qaeda. it felt so islamic extremist groups throughout the world. >> chairman, thank you. very briefly. i agree with you. in other words it includes lashkar-e-taiba and pakistan and the al-shabaab and somalia. they are all part of this by islamist extremism movement and they all threaten the united states of america. >> without antagonizing the man further -- [laughter] >> i apologize. just to further that point along the same lines, the administration refuses to understand and exploit terrorist semantics and the code words in the 9/11 commission report used the language of identifying enemy 39 times. she had 126 times. al qaeda 36 times, sharia two times. and the most report lessons from 2010 use these terms zero times. i have said many times in committee hearings, mr

mr. duncan. and i think this is not from the beginning we are exporting products now.o certainly this is the addition of canadian crude into our market and refining simply is providing more supply diversity, going to allow us to produce the fuel that we need here and when it makes sense we are certainly going to be able to export products as well. we import and export but more importantly, the canadian crude coming into the gulf coast refineries is replacing crude-oil that we had been bringing in from venezuela and mexico. venezuela is sending more product elsewhere and mexico's production is on the decline and we need to replace that. it's only replacing it but it will be even more. and that does and whomever overall energy and national security. >> as we adjourn, let me just close with the comment again of the prime minister of canada. this was several days after the obama administration announced the keystone deily and prime minister steven harper had had a face-to-face meeting with the leader hu jintao and afterwards to the press these were his words. the decision

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