Henry Waxman actually said...

No, sir, we feel that we do need the time that Mr. Linder had put out in his estimate.

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

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

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