Ed Whitfield actually said...

We all want to reduce our trade deficit and perhaps one day have a trade surplus.

Policies that delay or prevent energy exports are detrimental to energy producing states like Kentucky, and they hurt the nation as a whole.

The last thing we need is the kind of years-long bureaucratic delays comparable to what we have seen with Keystone XL.

I would like to call this hearing to order, and today's hearing is entitled 'U.S. Energy Abundance and the Regulatory, Market, and Legal Bar...