John Hoeven actually said...

"Director, on the Joint Operations Center (JOC), have you taken steps and are you confident that for any incident that might occur at the White House, that they have the communications capability to ge..."

"We're in a global battle for market share as to who produces oil and gas in this country, and we're duking it out with OPEC."

"We're at risk for growing our oil and gas industry, our energy industry, in this country versus having it shrink if we don't address this oil export problem and soon."

"It's the Keystone XL pipeline that has sort of become a metaphor for what we don't have in this country."