if I could add to the comments of Senator McCain. Last night we all met with the Prime Minister. They don't even need this economic aid today. They have to sign an IMF agreement first. It is weeks before they even need what the Senator…

the link between the completion of the Keystone pipeline and ensuring our energy security, thus our national security, is clear and compelling.

I hope this can be a balanced, thoughtful hearing, a hearing that puts aside some of the politics that have surrounded this debate.

It is unfortunate that the administration declined to testify here today, very unfortunate.

It has generated this much opposition when it seems... to be such a no-brainer.

the President's apparent climate standard for the approval of the pipeline... appears to ignore the findings of exhaustive concrete environmental and economic development analysis.

I think we can all learn from both of those views.

If our Nation was ever to get to a point where it was going to put a price on carbon, the carbon tax would be a much better way than the Rube Goldberg mechanism that the Senate looked at a few years ago.

the administration is now the only thing standing in the way of thousands of American jobs, with the potential for many more, and access to a large supply of North American energy.

What is it that we are expecting to do to change the equation on the ground in Syria now that it has become what it is?

So are we thinking about lethal support? We have people dropping barrel bombs. Are we thinking about doing something to diminish their ability to do that?

Al-Qaeda is on the rise, not only, and other extremists, in Syria.