Since last May, this committee has held four hearings on the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline and passed two separate bills to mandate approval of that pipeline, and yet the majority has never bothered to examine the impacts of tar sands…

The Republicans and the oil industry will use this opportunity to call for building the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.

The reality is that the carbon pollution from tar sands is growing very rapidly and the Alberta government is not willing to put the policies in place that would be necessary to change that.

The industry and Alberta government talk a good game but this is a classic example of greenwashing.

More drilling, building a new tar sands pipeline or developing oil shale has not reduced gasoline prices in Canada and it won't in the United States either.

The environmental harms from tar sands production have been minimized and will be solved by technology. In reality, the tar sands operations have vast and devastating effects on the land, water, air, and ecosystem.

The constraint is a lack of public support for foreign aid, which is the most controversial part of our budget.

The journey starts with us designating them all--

I don't think that is the strategy we would want to employ, as noble as that goal is.

There is very substantial support in America for aid to Armenia.

I was disappointed early in the Administration when we augmented the IMF with $105 billion but did not demand the suspension of Iran from the IMF.

I would hope that before we do anything else to help the IMF, we insist, at a minimum, that Iran not be given any additional special drawing rights.

So my closing question to all of you is--and by the way, I will talk a little more about the questions afterwards, but is not what we should have looked at from day one, all the way back when the mortgage rates started going down in 2008…

We must remember, however, that Fannie and Freddie played a large role in getting us into this mess.

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