I want to know how you're going to measure the public interest as part of that responsibility.

How can we figure out a way to come up with a consistent approach that would again bring the kind of predictability and certainty that would allow us to strike the kind of balance we've been talking about today?

This is a place we can bring together industry folks, environmental folks, the scientists.

This is an advantage for us. We've got to figure out how to nurture it and build on it.

I just hope, I appreciate the direction you're trying to outline, that you all will really look at the public lands as a place where we can think about best practices.

The Congress and the country deserves to know how FERC is going to look at that.

Free trade does not mean trade free from rules.

It seems to me that as you drill into this and look at the various kinds of loans, you come to the conclusion that not all energy loan guarantees are created equal.

I think your question hits on that.

I thought Senator Murkowski also made a lot of sense when she was saying right from the get go, nobody goes into this thinking that everything is going to be 100 percent, you know, winner in a dramatic opportunity for creating scores of…

I urge opposition to this amendment. I wish to outline just very briefly why. First, under this amendment the oil is not going to be going to the United States. This oil is going to be going to the export market, and the TransCanada…

I yield the floor at this time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Tennessee is recognized.

this amendment ensures that the Keystone Pipeline is built by American workers using American steel; that our priority is reasonably priced energy for American families and American businesses, rather than their Chinese competitors. It…

the Senator from North Dakota earlier offered a proposal to develop the Keystone Pipeline. I rise to speak on the alternative this afternoon. The alternative ensures expedited approval of the pipeline once the current environmental…

I have filed an alternative to the amendment offered by my friend from North Dakota. I ask unanimous consent to call up amendment No. 1817. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report. The legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator…

we had a discussion, a very important discussion--I know the Presiding Officer cares a great deal about this topic, as well as Senator Collins and also Senator Boxer--on this issue about boilers. I want to be clear about what is at issue…

I want to address the discussion we heard from our colleagues, particularly Senator Collins and Senator Boxer, on the key point. The changes I have described--the fact that we have made the rules changes so that so many of these materials…

the Baucus amendment is a lifeline for rural America, particularly for the West and the South, where the Federal Government owns so much of our land. This money is absolutely essential to keep school doors open, to keep cops out there…

We feel that that is absolutely necessary.

My concern is that this year in particular we could be looking at a perfect storm.

I share your view. Look forward to working with you.

We're down from 44 to somewhere in the vicinity of 11.

There's no question that there are a variety of factors with respect to gasoline prices.

How are you going to juggle those things, so that we can get more timber to the mills, particularly in southern Oregon?

the reason gasoline prices are so high is that you haven't opened up enough public land