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

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.

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

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

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.

Madam Speaker, 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…

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 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.