Madam Speaker, North Dakotans affirm life every day through strong, stable family structures and a culture that values life and that, frankly, values ending the circumstances that cause a woman to believe that her best option is an…

Well, there are other issues the FCC has taken up this year that I wish there would have been more consensus on, so I don't want consensus to mean 100 percent, as you might imagine.

we can't let the necessary and the perfect be the enemy of the good.

Thank the Chairman, and the Ranking Member, once again for suffering along with me as you wait for the last questioner.

Maybe Commissioner Pai first, and then the Chairman with the remaining time.

Chairman Wheeler, can we meet the end of the year deadline? Is there a reason we can't meet that, and are we attaching too many other things to the simple solution?

Mr. Chairman, I appreciate the chairman's clarifying the statements just made from the other side. I think we all have the same goal, but the lack of certainty, when you put in rule that for today we are not going to determine it hazardous…

Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that my name be removed as cosponsor of H.R. 2722. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from North Dakota? There was no objection. ____________________

Do you believe, representing just your country, that the world would be safer if the United States was a force or a player in the global marketplace, being the stable, reliable provider of crude oil?

I think energy security is different than energy independence.

I appreciate your support for the Keystone Pipeline.