John Hoeven

But it's important to distinguish between a rule and between guidance and understand that under a State primacy program, the State has the authority to make its own determination.

So is that broken out between what is required to do the study, as defined in scope by the Congress, and the additional work that you just referenced?

If we're going to empower industry, and if we're going to empower investment to produce more energy in this country and do it with good environmental stewardship, they need to know the rules of the road, and they need consistent…

We appreciate your willingness to work with us on it.

Cost-benefit needs to be part of it.

Our North Star here has to be to use the abundant resource of natural gas.

It has to be a workable regulation.

We can do so much more with good environmental stewardship.

We want to do it safely and well. We want good transparency.

We are number one in the country in land reclamation. We are number one in terms of how we handle the water.

Are you willing to have either you, Mr. Secretary, or your designee come out to my State and actually take a look on the ground at the situation and talk to some of our companies before you proceed?

I believe that this is a rule that you are developing and implementing as a result of some conditions in the Appalachian region of the country.

I appreciate your efforts. And again, I certainly want to do anything I can do to help, but certainly we want to do everything we can to see that our workers, our Americans, get home safe and sound.

That is our best shot to really apply pressure to the Iranian Government to stand down its nuclear ambitions.

We want to build a good relationship with this new democratic government in Egypt.

I feel we need to impose those sanctions as aggressively as we can.

I was recently there with Senator McCain and also Senator Lindsey Graham, our ranking member, and several other Senators.

This is a $7 billion private sector investment, not one penny of government spending

But the reality is to get to that all of the above that means we have to try to develop all of them, not pick winners and losers.

From an energy standpoint the concept of North American energy independence isn't this a plan that gives us the opportunity to truly get to all of the above?

The Keystone XL pipeline will lower gas prices, not may will lower gas prices

You're saying you're willing to build all kinds of pipelines, but you're unwilling to build a pipeline that will bring 830,000 barrels a day into this country from our closest friend and trading partner, Canada.

It will reduce prices and it will be used here, not exported

That's not the case. I just explained to you the pipeline that would help us bring the oil from my State down to the refineries.

We will put more than 100,000 barrels a day in that pipeline.