But there's a big difference when it's hauled by rail which adds a significantly higher cost to it.

There's also the issue of Canada being the--having the third largest oil reserves in the country.

Mr. President, I request an opportunity to speak for up to 10 minutes on the pending energy legislation. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Keystone XL Pipeline

I thank Senator Johanns. It is good to be with him. Also, to Senator Lamar Alexander from the great State of Tennessee, it is great to be with him as well. We share, I guess, the common experience of serving as Governors and certainly…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I think that it depends on the snapshot that you're taking with respect to when you're evaluating production on public land.

How would you work with the industry to increase development on Federal lands, public lands, deploy new technologies?

If you would compare and identify savings that we realize by using GPO versus basically just saying to each of the Members and the Senators, 'Okay, here's a budget. You take care of your own printing. Find it where you can.'

There are two kinds of schools of thought. One school of thought is everybody should take a proportional reduction.

If you were given a hold-even budget, how would you go about meeting that? What changes would you make?

It's incumbent on all of us to figure out how we reduce the deficit and the debt.