Oil prices are set by the global markets. This pipeline will have no impact on our vulnerability to price spikes or Iranian brinksmanship.

Well, the oil industry has been saying this would create 20,000 or even 100,000 jobs.

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

The Republicans say they support the pipeline because it will create tens of thousands of jobs, but that is not right either.

When we first held a hearing on this subject a year ago, there were press reports that Koch Industries would be one of the 'big winners' if this pipeline was constructed.

Now, the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline poses substantial risks for Americans.

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

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

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

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.

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.

We asked Koch whether this was true and were told that they have no interest whatsoever in the pipeline.

We feel that we do need the time that Mr. Linder had put out in his estimate.

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

Now is that a way to approve an important and controversial pipeline? I hardly think that is the case.

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

The benefits for oil companies are also real. They will finally be able to export tar sands to Asia.

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

President Obama listened to differing views of American citizens and made a responsible decision.

We are still incredibly wasteful and inefficient.

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…

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

It will simply allow Canadian oil companies to use the United States as a conduit for shipping their tar sands overseas to China.

America's oil consumption is no longer growing.