opening statement
I don't even know what this hearing is all about. We have had so many hearings by the Republicans to beat up on the Affordable Care Act.
Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
At the end of the day we know pipelines will leak and oil will spill.
The United States doesn't need this dirty energy because the fact is we are developing domestic oil, natural gas resources at a record pace.
The President has wisely said that he will not approve the pipeline if it leads significantly to worse climate change, and that is clearly t...
If we are going to ask the United States to bear all of the environmental risk of transporting this dirty oil, we should at least ensure tha...
This single tar sands pipeline would increase America's carbon pollution equivalent to building seven new coal-fired power plants.
I oppose this tar sands pipeline because this locks us into decades of higher carbon pollution.
There are plenty of other infrastructure investments that we can make that would generate good jobs across the country, hundreds of thousand...
I don't see the benefits to U.S. energy consumer even though that is an argument that is put forward quite a bit.