You're still running 180 to 270 days for an approval on BLM land verses a few weeks on private.

Because it's a lot of revenue and it's revenue to the federal government.

That's never going to happen. All they're going to do is mine around you, and then the Federal Government is just out the revenue.

I thank the sponsor of this important legislation for yielding the time. I just have to respond to the most recent speaker, who I believe is sincere in his concerns, but we are not talking today about corporations and loopholes. We are not…

I thank the chairman. As I have been sitting here, I have to admit, my thoughts have changed back and forth. My mind has changed. My speech has changed dramatically. It occurred to me: I think my friends on the other side of the aisle are…

Isn't that exactly the kind of investment in technology that is going to help us get carbon capture and storage or sequestration to a commercially viable point?

I thank the chairman. Mr. Speaker, I spent several minutes articulating the details of the benefits of this bill. I am grateful to Senator Hoeven, my Senator from North Dakota, for introducing it in the Senate. I want to answer just a…

I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I thank my friends on the other side as well on the Rules Committee. I have been before them twice now on this topic and have enjoyed it immensely. I might say as a word of encouragement with regard…

I appreciate the generosity of the gentleman from Georgia. Thank you. But all construction jobs are temporary until the construction is done and you move on to the next project. There are thousands of miles of pipeline under the ground in…

I would like to get to your people the Quest and the Kearl which are Shell and Exxon's projects

Both Senator Manchin and Senator Capito pressed you on this issue.

I would like to speak on the subject of the Keystone XL Pipeline. The Keystone XL approval bill which we passed in the Senate will be voted on this afternoon in the House. I believe the House will pass the bill with a strong bipartisan…

I appreciate that, and I appreciate working with you on it.

Your visit to our state was much appreciated, and I think was very good, very valuable.

I think it would be good for you to take a look at this project.

It is really hard for those of us who deal with the complexities of Amazon.com to really believe that in this day and age, they do not have real time matching capability.

Mr. Chairman, if I can just ask one more question, if we take and actually use old data... would that not be a screening technique we could use?

I'm wondering what can you tell me in terms of getting to a new start, so we can do a study and evaluate a permanent project for Minot.