02/23/2010
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"You have no opportunity, none, to try to discourage the oil and gas industry from existing or prospering."
"I have indicated numerous times in my comments, public and private, that I am of the belief... Senator Bob Dole's life in the United States Senate... was hugely formed by the circumstances he encounte..."
"I hope we can spread the way that we do business in this Committee to all the other committees I serve on."
"I appreciate my colleagues in the Senate who have expressed their condolences to me as a Kansan and me as a personal friend of Senator Dole."