Henry Waxman

We are still incredibly wasteful and inefficient.

I don't think this pipeline was in our national security interest.

The facts just don't support these claims.

I consider that an ad hominem political kind of argument.

I want to make a point of order.

This is a big decision. We are going to be living with the consequences for maybe 50 to 100 years.

I think that it is very detrimental to this Nation to continue the CO2 emissions that we are doing

It is going to cause us more greenhouse gases adding to climate change problems.

America's oil dependence threatens our national security.

This is the dirtiest source of oil from these tar sands, and that is what I meant to say.

The real issue is whether they are going to do these tar sands at all because if they can't bring it into the United States, they are not going to develop those tar sands.

The number one export for the United States in 2011, was oil petroleum products.

I think in all fairness the adverse environmental impact of the no-project option has not been given a fair hearing.

Not of oil. Not our security.

America's oil consumption is no longer growing.

Michael McMasters, Wall Street investor, testified before Congress repeatedly that speculators are pushing prices well beyond what the supply and the demand warrant.

I do not believe that the Keystone Pipeline would reduce fuel prices, and that is what we are telling the American public.

They have been going way out on a limb to get this pipeline approved, even to the point where a tax cut for middle class Americans and unemployment benefits and money for physicians was--a bill was held up to make sure that there was a…

Mr. Chairman, the topic that we are discussing is the Keystone Pipeline, but I must say the Republicans are like Keystone cops in the way they have handled this whole issue.

I also asked the chairman to invite the operator of the pipeline, TransCanada.

I want to know why Koch would tell the U.S. Congress one thing and the Canadian government the exact opposite.

Now, we have attempted to do something about that, but the majority party has fought us tooth and nail on this.

We used to have a party in this country called the Know Nothings, and the people that are pushing this bill want us to know nothing about this pipeline except what the proponents want us to know.

Now, we wanted to find out what interest the Koch Industries had.

So now they have come up with a bill. This is a remarkable bill. This bill says--I wish people would read it.