Political Quotes

“I want to clarify that that was done for a different permit. The study that was done--that's referenced in there-- is the environmental study and the requested supplemental for the route, except for the State of Nebraska. There's another sentence in there that he didn't mention and that is in the now second supplemental for the State of Nebraska new review. There was an earlier statement that there was never one done under Nebraska. That's just absolutely false. The reality is we've done all of the environmental statements on this route for this permit that were required. So I want to make that clear. And the other point that I would like to make is the language that's taken in this bill about deeming it in the national interest and deeming the environmental studies--as they've been done for this route in total--have been done before, including the language taken out of a bill that the gentleman that's speaking right now supported in 2004.”