Ed Markey actually said...

"Do you believe, Mr. Secretary, that the authority of the President to deploy the Strategic Petroleum Reserve should depend on the permitting of the Keystone Pipeline?"

"the oil companies and the Republicans, they oppose deploying the SPR but their oil-above-all policy doesn't help drivers right now."

"There are only two tools the President has to bring down gas prices right now--deploy the strategic petroleum reserve and get other countries in the world to use their Strategic Petroleum Reserves."

"this legislation seems like an answer in search of a problem."