Ed Markey actually said...

"The problem is that we already had that conversation here, and the head of the pipeline, the Canadian pipeline, the Keystone pipeline sat here, and I asked him just 3 months ago would he agree that th..."

"So why would we have----"

"No, he said he would not agree to that. The head of the Canadian pipeline said he would not agree to it."

"This is a very important hearing, and because it focuses upon what became a consensus after the first oil embargo, which was that it was critical for the United States to not have American produced oi..."