The livelihoods of people are being held hostage by groups who sue over and over to get their way.

As you know, in order for this, if we had the carbon capture technology and if it was adequately demonstrated and it became commercially available and it was economically feasible to do it, and to meet the growing demand.

I support it but I don't think we should displace coal with it.

But in the most recent proposal, you actually do state that carbon dioxide emissions from new power plants are from CCS has not been implemented and that we believe there is insufficient information to make a determination.

If building international and interstate pipelines was easy, we would have a lot more of them right now.

This is day 2,000 of the Keystone XL pipeline's review process, which the EPA has largely criticized and opposed.

I want to place into the record without objection a letter from the North Dakota Industrial Commission.

I would love to burn more than, you know, that 30 million tons of coal we burn in North Dakota every year.

Thank you, Ms. McCabe, for your testimony, for being with us during this long morning into the afternoon.

Thank you, Chairman Whitfield. Mr. Chairman, I think pretty much everybody I talk to around here is familiar with the fact that North Dakota has 25,000 job openings with fewer than 10,000 people looking for work. It is not an accident. It…

The recent derailment of an agricultural products train that led to derailment of a train full of Bakken crude oil that led to explosions near the city of Casselton, North Dakota, was a stark reminder of our new reality.

North Dakota is known for having the strongest economy and the lowest unemployment rate in the Nation. We are also known as the home of North Dakota State University, or ``Bison Nation'' as we like to call it. While millions of football…

I think Mr. Tipton was on earlier relating to OSM Director's counsel, Dianne Shawley, and some of what I consider to be pretty disturbing statements.

Does this seem cavalier to you, for somebody in a position like that, to be overseeing a billion-dollar rulemaking that is going to impact, you know, thousands of American jobs?

My time has expired. Thank you.

I certainly want to thank my friend and colleague from Oklahoma. He is a colleague on the Natural Resources Committee with me, as well as the Indian and Alaska Native Affairs Subcommittee, and Mr. Mullin has demonstrated great leadership…

Let me begin by thanking my colleague, Mr. Reed, for his leadership on the Congressional Diabetes Caucus. Thank you, that was very inspiring. Mr. Speaker, I am of the firm conviction that America's national security and America's economic…

I thank the chairman for his leadership on this important issue. Mr. Chairman, the citizens of North Dakota sent me to Washington in large part to protect our thriving economy from the overreaching regulations, often based on faulty…

Wayne and Leann Buchholz operate a ranch near Rhame, North Dakota. They have never been active in politics, but a recent letter from their insurance company has changed all of that, for their letter informed them that they would be losing…

is there a line--and you certainly can understand why industry and states might be concerned that we are down this path, with the mere possibility as a standard, and the uncertainty that that creates in the investment community as we try…

the possible versus probable, as what is the standard, then, of probability before you continue with more years and more resources, given the fact that hydraulic fracturing is not exactly a new technology?

I also understand that, in a place like North Dakota, where there are 17,000 jobs at stake, $3-1/2 billion toward our economy is at stake.

Let me assure you, it does because it is a further reflection of an attitude that has been pervasive by this Administration that tells anybody interested in fossil fuel development, we are going to punish you as much as we can.

It costs a lot of money when you are talking about a billion dollars per plant in excessive coal use.

I would like to submit my letter of invitation to you of October 18 into the record, if I could, Mr. Chairman?