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.

For a year I have been asking a simple question: Who benefits from this extraordinary Congressional intervention in the regulatory process?

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

I think that probably what has doomed this application more than anything was the politics that has been played...

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

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

I want to make a point of order.

I consider that an ad hominem political kind of argument.

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.

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

I know the original Keystone pipeline that goes into Congressman Shimkus's district and Indiana is much shorter...

Not of oil. Not our security.

I think it is a misguided effort.

I think this pipeline is a bad idea. It ignores the concerns of the----

This tar sands pipeline won't boost our energy independence or lower gas prices or create the inflated jobs being promised.

If the Republicans were seriously and actually concerned about jobs, they would work with the President passing his jobs bill.

The American people will bear the risks, and Big Oil will reap the rewards.

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

The facts just don't support these claims.

I think that is a pitiful excuse for a jobs policy.

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

This has been a terrible year in Congress. The intransigence of the Republican leadership and the Tea Party Republicans has brought us to the brink of crisis again and again. And now we're playing another game of chicken with the lives and…

the broader group said don't do anything, or if you are going to do something, do it in a very small rollout, just as Congressman Waxman was talking about.

I am pleased at this time to yield 2 minutes to the man who's going to be the chairman of the Health Subcommittee when the public gets a chance next year to vote out the Keystone Kops overreaching Republicans who are doing it again to the…

I am pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentlelady from California, the next chair of the Telecommunications Subcommittee, Ms. Eshoo.