Madam Chairman, it really is a rubix cube, isn't it?
That is pretty sobering, isn't it, when you say it is seven years in the best case for needed energy, to move energy around the country.
We have to build that relationship with landowners which I believe we do.
This is the issue and it is a very, very important pressing issue.
We all have to work together because we have to get the energy from where it is produced to where the consumers are.
Chairman Hoeven, Vice-Chairman, and members of the Committee, my name is A-dae Romero-Briones.
These Federal programs are vitally important to Native American communities.
In my home State of North Dakota, the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation... has been an industry leader in oil production.
The Department of the Interior is supposed to facilitate tribal resource development.
We have to build more, not only natural gas pipelines, but other pipelines as well.
Well, of course. It is clearly something we have to test and clearly something we have to figure out how we can develop testing for, because...