It defies logic to me that when you have a transportation system that the State Department even testified was safer, the safest means of transport, the most environmentally safe transport that there be arguments that it not add to our…

I think one of the key points here that has been missed in the State Department's testimony... is that they are using Nebraska as the excuse to deny the permit.

Everything that can be said about Keystone has been said, but sometimes it needs to be repeated.

The absolute certainty is that the prices will go up, shortages will exist, our economy will suffer.

The gentleman made an accusation saying that we are tied to campaign contributions. A, that is wrong, but that is against our rules.

But sadly, as the end of the year approached, the administration reversed position and postponed its decision until 2013 at the earliest.

I think the gentleman's time has expired and I want his words taken down.

It is not often that Congress can take a single step that will simultaneously help reduce the future price at the gas pump, strengthen the Nation's energy security, and create literally tens of thousands of jobs.

I am profoundly disappointed that the State Department objected to Mr. Linder being on the panel.

I think the point--or they said in the first quarter of 2013.

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