Richard Pombo: “But when we got into this process several years ago, the reason that we did was because we had so many challenges in…”

“But when we got into this process several years ago, the reason that we did was because we had so many challenges in terms of delivering a reliable source of energy for the people in this country that we had so many different things that we had to take on. We had a problem with reliability and ability to deliver natural gas at an affordable price to our constituents, and that is one part of the bill. We had problems with gaining access for power lines and gas lines across public lands, and that is one part of the bill. We have a problem with an overdependence on foreign sources for our energy in this country, and that is a part of the bill. All of the different parts of the energy bill, as they moved through the Committee on Resources and the Committee on Energy and Commerce, were all about trying to deal with all of these definite challenges and all of these problems and trying to come up with a way in a balanced approach to deal with those problems.”