Political Quotes

“Madam President, I wish to thank the Senator from Louisiana for her leadership in energy, onshore and off, in a big way. She is absolutely right. This is our opportunity to have North American energy security and North American energy independence, working with our closest friend and ally Canada. This is how we do it--Mexico as well. The Senator from Louisiana is also absolutely right: Canada will produce this oil. That is a fact. That is going to happen. The question is, Is it going to come to the United States or is it going to go offshore to China? We see these green lines; they show the pipelines that would take that oil to China rather than the United States. Net effect: We continue then to import oil from the Middle East, and Canadian oil goes to China. It makes no sense--not to mention better environmental stewardship that we would enjoy working with Canada, which we will touch on as well. I wish to at this point ask the distinguished Senator from Arkansas, Mr. Boozman, to join the colloquy, and I would also invite Senator Manchin as well. I see Senator Begich is here also. So I invite Senator Boozman to make his comments but then also offer the opportunity for our other distinguished Senators to join in the colloquy.”