From the office of Congressman Andy Harris:
Today, Congressman Andy Harris, M.D. voted to cut the State Department foreign aid budget by $8 billion, a decrease of 19% from current levels, bringing the expenditures down to 2008 levels before President Obama was elected. The savings would be achieved through legislation that funds the State Department and was considered today by the Committee on Appropriations. As a member of the Committee, Congressman Harris voted in favor of the bill and the proposed reduction in foreign aid.
“The President’s foreign policy has been stunningly unsuccessful, and it’s time to stop sending billions of dollars we’re borrowing from places like China to other countries,” said Harris. “This budget entirely eliminates unnecessary programs like the clean technology fund and the strategic climate fund. It also reduces UN spending by a third of a billion dollars. It’s time we start focusing American’s hard-earned tax dollars here at home on projects like building the Keystone XL pipeline instead of throwing them away in foreign lands.”
So Harris thinks polluting the Ogallala Aquifer that spans eight states and provides drinking water for two million people should take precedence?
Yup! That evil pipeline pollution is SOOOOOOO much worse than oil train derailments in Canada. I mean, after all, let the Crazy Cunucks kill their environment and get pissed off at their trading partners, build their own pipelines to their export harbors and ship to, oh, China.
What a maroon!
The world is so far ahead of us in renewable energy but some can’t get over their addiction to oil. What a maroon!
So you don’t drive a car?
There are currently two pipelines that run through the aquifer in Nebraska, and over a hundred working oil wells drilled right through the aquifer. The current proposed route of the XL pipeline if routed around the aquifer in Nebraska will run right over the aquifer in Kansas and Oklahoma. The aquifer runs from South Dakota, through Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and into Texas. If you want to really know how many oil pipelines already exist that run through or over the ogallala simply google pipelines in the us and take a look at the current map.
Personally, I could care less if they build the pipeline or not. But the current debate about building the XL is about politics, not about oil and the actual threat to the aquifer.
I have to agree with the cuts to foreign aid when the money could be better spent paying down debt.
But what is it about that Keystone XL pipeline? Just let it go. It’s like the go-to job creator program. And it’s not even that good. It’s only estimated to create about 4000, many temporary, jobs. Bring me some better ideas, Andy.
The thing that most don’t realize is that, Curshing, OK, where a lot of oil/gas refinement/storage capacity exists, has a dirth of the black gold. This helps solve issues of getting it out of there and to MORE refinement/storage locations. It’s hell being landlocked.
Plus, pipelines are the cheapest, safest way to transport gas/oil. If the market wants to build it, let them build it. But you know…I suppose 50 dead and spills into streams are more appropriate.
If the market wants it they should not use eminante domain to seize the land!
What market would that be? None of that oil benefits the US.
Give priority to spending our tax money at home first for the welfare of our people, too many of whom remained unemployed even after 5 years of the Obama administration. What a novel idea.
Is the welfare of our people benefited by seizing their land and selling it to a foriegn company? That is what is happening with Keystone!
Wait, I’m confused. I thought in the previous post you were for the pipeline.
No I am not. Primarily because it is an abuse of eminante domain to benefit a foriegn corporation.
Everyone can breathe. Very little that Andy Harris supports will ever become law. He’s a populist of the worst variety, often indicating very little thought when he makes public statements. In personal communications with me, his office has made it very clear that they do not understand how the debt limit functions, nor how defaulting on the US debt is a “bad thing”. After that exchange, I’ve realized that the only thing to do is to wait until he’s defeated by a Republican who wants do something for the 1st District, rather than whatever it is Harris believes he is doing.
As long as it is not a Dem/Lib whacko limousine liberal.
Obviously that won’t be happening in the 1st District. We have a populist at the moment. With any luck, we’ll get a Republican in the next election.
I’ll take a moderate dem or republican over Harris.
If you want moderate Dem you will have to import one from somewhere outside of Maryland.
So, you’d be fine with a moderate, as long as he or she is a Republican? That can be done. Gilchrest represented the 1st for quite some time. I’m sure we can find someone competent to represent the Eastern Shore more adequately than Harris, maybe even someone from there.
(Before anyone gets mad, please note that the 1st District is the Eastern Shore, with a slice of Harford County, thanks to gerrymandering.)
And Baltimore county where Harris lives.
Andy is absolutely right on. The moron we have for president wants gasoline priced out of reach of the middle class which he is working to destroy. There is no study showing that the pipeline would pollute the aquifer. Unfortunately I have found that arguing with a liberal is a waste of time.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/energysource/2013/05/10/pipe-dreams-how-many-jobs-will-be-created-by-keystone-xl/
It’s ok to have an open mind. Your brains won’t fall out.
Travon was killed by a white vigilante (white Hispanic) didn’t know there was any such thing. Primarily a white guy with a gun that couldn’t punch his way out of a paperbag but can pull the trigger on a kid with skittles and tea? Let that guy come to my street and take care of him the old fashioned way, hood style!!!
I’m waiting for Kharn to post a comment, showing us supposedly how much he knows about the Keystone XL pipeline, Curshing, OK, the Ogallala Aquifer, Wayne Gilchrist, Forbes Magazine, and Skittles. He must still be doing his research on Wikipedia.
If he winds up suggesting that Andy Harris is a blind ideologue interested in his own agenda rather than representing the range of interests and opinions in the district, I’ll have to be tempted to give him a Thumbs Up.
i’m Not Doing Anything like that.
Don’t worry about Harris. Let’s import Chris Christie and give New Jersey our current governor.