Last thing I want to touch on with you is that Congress funded the first three energy innovation hubs in fiscal year 2010.

You have an armed force walking into a sovereign nation and tearing a sovereign European country apart.

I will oppose this amendment because I think at this point we have got to move forward.

I am a huge supporter of the idea of exporting our natural gas; playing a counter to Russia.

Assad has murdered almost 200,000 of his own people.

I think it is completely legitimate to go after corrupt officials in Russia.

I haven't hesitated to criticize people in my own party over in the other body for not moving as quickly as possible to help the Ukraine.

I think it is important that we adopt bipartisan legislation as quickly as possible and that we avoid controversial and partisan division.

We also have to call on the government of Kiev to do everything possible to refute Putin's charge that this a regime of winners.

We have to impose sanctions to show that we are dedicated to the concept of territorial integrity and the rule of international law.

I rise in cautious opposition to this amendment simply because we're going to spend all day tomorrow talking about energy.

What if we were to use the permitting process on L&G as basically a strategic asset for foreign policy?

I would like this bill to go forward, and I look forward to tomorrow's hearings, and what you're proposing.

I do think this is a case where an absolutist position is probably not going to prevail.

As to petroleum, no amount of effort in the United States is going to have a significant impact on the worldwide price of petroleum.

Obviously, the movements of population committed by Hitler and Stalin were wrong.

Had the individual provisions been subject to a separate vote, an amendment process, I might have taken the same position.

I think we could achieve the purpose of this amendment by stopping it at the word 'Council' and eliminating the words 'until Russia ends its aggression against the Ukraine.'