Pete Domenici: “You don't have to answer. As a matter of fact, I am very hopeful that everybody can see it, because you saw beautiful…”

“You don't have to answer. As a matter of fact, I am very hopeful that everybody can see it, because you saw beautiful polar bears, you saw fantastic growth everybody is proud of. But can anyone believe that little, tiny footprint is going to affect polar bears in the ANWR wilderness? Can you believe that much property, used to drill oil for America's future, is going to have an impact on America's economic future? I submit, if the issue had not already been framed, and if, as a matter of fact, Senators had not already been convinced, if they truly started right here on the floor--let's discuss America; let's discuss the amount of oil we have to use each day; let's discuss our future; and now let's take a look at ANWR. If we had not received messages in the mail, if we had not received requests for contributions from those who support keeping ANWR exactly like it is, and not letting us have any of the resources that belong to America--if none of that occurred, we were here in a closed session, all 100 Senators, and those who wanted to say ``no drilling'' got a day, and I got an hour, they could talk all they wanted, and I would put this chart up and say, ``Are you kidding? You don't even want America to take a look at that?''”