Lynn A. Westmoreland: “Well, what I wanted to point out, this is what ANWR looks like. It's kind of a frozen tundra. I had some young people up…”

“Well, what I wanted to point out, this is what ANWR looks like. It's kind of a frozen tundra. I had some young people up here the other day from a school, and one of them asked me a question, said, Are you for drilling in ANWR? I said, Yes, I am. She kind of frowned. I said, Why? She said, I don't want you to ruin all the beautiful trees up there. I tried to find a tree. I couldn't find a tree on the place. So there's a lot of misunderstanding out there about what it is. Then you can look at the size of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and then the ANWR part as compared to the whole State of Alaska. A lot of people don't understand that Alaska--we have got a map of it somewhere--it's bigger than Texas. I know Mr. Conaway is here from Texas. Three times the size of Texas. In fact, I will let Mr. Conaway talk about Texas and ANWR and other things, if he would like.”