John Boehner: 'GOP Highlights American Energy Production & Infrastructure Jobs Bill'

Source:Speaker of the House John Boehner- and company talking about their jobs bill.

"At a press conference, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), Transportation & Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica (R-FL), Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (R-WA), Rep. Steve Stivers (R-OH) and Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA) announced that House Republicans will soon unveil legislation -- the American Jobs & Infrastructure Act -- linking expanded American energy production to high-priority infrastructure projects." 

From John Boehner

Yesterday the House Republican Leadership introduced their first serious jobs bill in this Congress. Introducing an energy and infrastructure investment plan that has bipartisan support in the House. That would open more parts of the country to energy production including, oil production. And use the revenue thats collected from that through leases to pay for infrastructure investment. So we would be able to put more people to work in the oil and gas industry as well as construction workers in the construction industry. 

Now, I would expand this plan to include other energy sectors, natural Gas, electricity, nuclear power, solar, wind put everything on the table. Not pick winners and losers and use the lease revenue from these energy sectors, to pay for infrastructure investment in the short-term, but also create a National Infrastructure Bank to fund our infrastructure investment for the long-term, which would also help our manufacturing industry in the short and long-term as well. Because of the equipment that it would take to do all of this work. 

But this plan that the House GOP Leadership introduced Thursday, is a good first step. And something that should be considered by the Democratic Senate and White House. And at least House Republicans are finally taking the need for infrastructure investment in America seriously and even proposing their own plan. Perhaps they are hearing this from their constituents and perhaps even construction company's in their own House districts, that there's a lot of work to do here and we would like to be hired to do this work.