part of the justification for rejecting the pipeline was because there was a greenhouse gas analysis that was done to determine it was going to contribute to emissions of greenhouse gas.

the greatest cause of land loss in coastal Louisiana is the Federal Government, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Coastal Louisiana has lost about 1,900 square miles of wetlands and some of the most productive ecosystem on this entire continent.

Let me go because I am almost out of time.

But it does seem from what we have learned from San Diego in that comment is that if you are in a really high-value real estate, that you really do need a supply-side subsidy if you are going to make something affordable.

But doesn't that seem a little bit strange, that you would blame Keystone XL Pipeline on greenhouse gas emissions, yet for the Iran nuclear agreement you have the fourth-largest reserves of the world--if I recall correctly--of oil…

I thought I gathered what you said earlier that a voucher is more successful in expanding housing stock, if you will, the demand-side subsidy, than the supply-side subsidy.

But in San Diego, higher income--again, your property values are so high, you do not have to be a wealthy person to have a house which is valued very highly.

I do not have a solution. I am posing that because that is what we are grappling with.

If I destroyed something, you would come after me. And if I destroyed wetlands, you know who would come after me? The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, yet they are the greatest cause of loss to coastal wetlands in the Nation.

Social Security is in trouble. And the longer we wait, the tougher it becomes to fix it.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Once we resolve it, let's get it resolved and put it to bed.

So what we have to do is we have to show political courage here, and I am very, very hopeful that this committee through these hearings is preparing to do exactly that.

I take this responsibility seriously, and I am committed to making sure our children and our grandchildren can count on Social Security just like seniors and individuals with disabilities do today.

It is up to Congress to make the tough choices based on the best, most accurate information we can find and is available.

Let me just start with, people make the assertion all the time that more guns are the answer--guns in schools, guns in churches, guns in movie theatres.

There are a bunch of people, including me, that think that the justice system is rigged for those who are privileged and those who are rich.