Today on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, our man Jared Huffman added his voice to the almost-certainly futile resistance against the Keystone XL Pipeline, a controversial project aimed at channeling oil from Canada to the Gulf Coast.

(Click here for a passable CliffsNotes-style primer on the topic.)

Huffman called the project “a very early Christmas present from the United States Congress to one specific Canadian company” and, extending the metaphor, “a huge lump of coal for our global climate.”