It befuddles most Americans as polling has shown that this President denied the permit, and the jobs that would be created...

It just--it befuddles me why they would oppose it.

The gentleman made an accusation saying that we are tied to campaign contributions. A, that is wrong, but that is against our rules.

I think one of the key points here that has been missed in the State Department's testimony... is that they are using Nebraska as the excuse to deny the permit.

Everything that can be said about Keystone has been said, but sometimes it needs to be repeated.

The absolute certainty is that the prices will go up, shortages will exist, our economy will suffer.

I think the point--or they said in the first quarter of 2013.

It defies logic to me that when you have a transportation system that the State Department even testified was safer, the safest means of transport, the most environmentally safe transport that there be arguments that it not add to our…

But sadly, as the end of the year approached, the administration reversed position and postponed its decision until 2013 at the earliest.

I want to go off my regular script and just express my displeasure that the State Department decided or objected to our Nebraska witness that could help put in context the Nebraska exemption and what Nebraska is doing.

I think the gentleman's time has expired and I want his words taken down.

It is not often that Congress can take a single step that will simultaneously help reduce the future price at the gas pump, strengthen the Nation's energy security, and create literally tens of thousands of jobs.

I am profoundly disappointed that the State Department objected to Mr. Linder being on the panel.

I think a lot of the opposition... are folks who do not feel that we should continue to use carbon-based energy.

Those of us who live and work along the proposed path of this pipeline applaud him for placing our welfare ahead of the interests of big oil companies.

Short circuiting the review process would be an injustice and, in fact, a gross injustice to all of us that have to live and work along the proposed path of this pipeline.

Mr. Terry himself in a speech a week or 2 weeks ago in the State of Nebraska said there would be no more than 30 permanent jobs as a result--in the State of Nebraska as a result of the pipeline project.

TransCanada has built a mountain of distrust among the ordinary citizens of our State and either with their voluntary agreement to move the pipeline out of the Sandhills we remain very skeptical.