We need to take this problem out of the shadows.

Somehow we have to reduce the demand and the sense that it is OK to do this.

I am trying to get at what is going to stop people from demanding these services or using the services of human beings who are trafficks.

I come to the Senate floor to mark the fifth anniversary--the fifth birthday, if you will--the fifth anniversary of the application of the Keystone XL Pipeline. TransCanada applied for approval of the Keystone XL Pipeline in September of…

I don't question the sincerity of our Democrat colleagues' desire to feed the truly needy; I share in that commitment. But, Madam Speaker, I do resent the idea that somehow asking able-bodied adults without dependent children to at least…

After 5 years and something like four environmental impact statements, the State Department has determined no significant environmental impact.

We don't spend one single taxpayer dollar but we get hundreds of millions in tax revenue and the State Department, as Chairman Upton said, by its own admissions, this thing creates 40,000 jobs.

I do not think that anyone in rural America anymore believes that is true or trusts it.

I will be very brief, recognizing the other urgent business the Senate needs to address, but I did want to associate myself with the remarks of the very able and capable chairwoman of the agriculture committee, Senator Stabenow. We have a…

Do you believe that the highly rural areas of America deserve the same level of service as suburban and urban areas of this country?

And I am just trying to kind of get a handle around these numbers.

If you close every rural post office in North Dakota, you will not have an opportunity for new revenue.

we have to be able to pay our bills. We cannot be in the position of subsidizing other systems

Look, it is not just about Canadian oil. I represent the State of North Dakota. We now produce almost a million barrels of oil a day, second only to Texas.

I want to know about other innovations.

the regulatory burden is hurting our economy and Keystone XL pipeline is a clear case in point.

if the United States doesn't take this oil and we don't build this needed infrastructure which States like mine need, it is going to China.

Eighty-two percent of Americans in a recent Harris poll support this project.