Mr. Speaker, I want to address the climate change issue because I think it is an important issue to a lot of people. The argument that the other side makes is based on the false idea that somehow oil sands are not going to be developed…

I thank the chairman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I just wanted to address a couple of things. First of all, I will place in the Record letters I received from the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council and Caterpillar. January 7, 2015…

I thank the chairman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I just heard a word that is almost hard to believe. We have been accused of expediting this process. Ladies and gentlemen, this is day 2,303 of this process. It is time now. It is time…

Mr. Speaker, my intention this morning was to get up and try to be eloquent when talking about the ABLE Act, Achieving a Better Life Experience, which we will vote on later today, but since yesterday, I have received four emails from…

I thank Chairman Schweikert for yielding. Mr. Chairman, my colleagues and the sponsor have done a good job of describing what the bill is and what it does and why it is necessary. I want to talk a little bit about what is at stake. I think…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the chairman for yielding. It seems it should be so unnecessary to have something that makes so much common sense become so historic, and yet, here, we find ourselves at a historic moment. After years of debate and…

I am very pleased with the pre-filed testimony.

Are there plans to broaden the study considering all the plays that might be out there and all the potential there might be for a lot more of this product to be moved by rail?

So I want to get then to Chairman Broun's illustration and realize maybe you can't answer it from a compound standpoint, so let me ask it from a layman's standpoint.

I want to also say I appreciate Secretary Moniz and Secretary Foxx, who have been very engaged with--at least with the North Dakota Delegation on this topic.

This gets to my concern about a calming scientific approach versus a sort of hysterical approach if you want to know the truth.