I think in all fairness the adverse environmental impact of the no-project option has not been given a fair hearing.

I do not believe that the Keystone Pipeline would reduce fuel prices, and that is what we are telling the American public.

Mr. Chairman, the topic that we are discussing is the Keystone Pipeline, but I must say the Republicans are like Keystone cops in the way they have handled this whole issue.

I consider that an ad hominem political kind of argument.

I also asked the chairman to invite the operator of the pipeline, TransCanada.

Michael McMasters, Wall Street investor, testified before Congress repeatedly that speculators are pushing prices well beyond what the supply and the demand warrant.

They have been going way out on a limb to get this pipeline approved, even to the point where a tax cut for middle class Americans and unemployment benefits and money for physicians was--a bill was held up to make sure that there was a…

I want to know why Koch would tell the U.S. Congress one thing and the Canadian government the exact opposite.

Now, we have attempted to do something about that, but the majority party has fought us tooth and nail on this.

So now they have come up with a bill. This is a remarkable bill. This bill says--I wish people would read it.

We used to have a party in this country called the Know Nothings, and the people that are pushing this bill want us to know nothing about this pipeline except what the proponents want us to know.

Now, we wanted to find out what interest the Koch Industries had.

For a year I have been asking a simple question: Who benefits from this extraordinary Congressional intervention in the regulatory process?

President Obama listened to differing views of American citizens and made a responsible decision.

The American people will bear the risks, and Big Oil will reap the rewards.

These jobs would be around for 2 years. TransCanada said it is going to be 20,000 jobs, or over 100,000.

No, sir, and that is why we felt we could not go forward.

If this were done on an aggressive schedule, a new route could be approved by October of 2012 at the earliest.