the message that the President's denial of this permit sent the world is that the far left of the environmental community is now in charge of our energy and foreign policy.

I don't see that they are in much of a different position than Warren Buffett is except they are on different sides of the issue perhaps.

I believe that I would rather be dependent on Mexico and Canada than Saudi Arabia and Venezuela.

Now we are letting Canada drill here, ship here, and re-export so all we have to do is pay more, both in terms of money at the gas pump and costs to the environment.

The CEO of TransCanada sat right there and said he would not support that legislation.

This bill just turns the United States into a middleman in a multi-national oil deal between Canada, South America, Europe, or China.

If we are going to go to the extreme lengths of legislating the construction of an environmentally-destructive pipeline to benefit a Canadian company, we should at least be sure that we in the United States can realize the energy security…

I cannot believe that anyone on this committee would have their decision on whether or not to vote for this piece of legislation turn on whether Koch Industries or any other private company benefited or was harmed by this.

Well, Ms. Jones, reading directly from the Federal Environmental Impact Statement, it says, 'As a result of these considerations, the Department of State does not regard the no action alternative, that is, not to build the pipeline, we do…

Let me tell you something. If you want to talk about that, let us talk about the millions of dollars that the Obama administration gave companies like Solyndra, to people like George Kaiser, who is out there bundling money for the…

If our President decides that sending three aircraft carrier strike groups to the Strait of Hormuz to defend the free flow of oil, if he thinks that is in the national interest, then one would also think a pipeline from Canada that would…