Chris Stewart

Like all of us, we thank the panel for your service, for your expertise, for being with us today.

I thank my good friend, Mr. Messer. I've been blessed to do a lot of fun things in my life, to do a lot of interesting jobs. I was an Air Force pilot for 14 years. That was maybe the funnest thing I've ever done. I was a writer. I've…

Thank you for holding this very important hearing.

Did any of the others want to address that last question? She left it open for any of you.

The proposed project would potentially support approximately 42,100 average annual jobs across the United States.

If you want to enhance our national security while decreasing the need to put our sons and daughters in harm's way in far-off regions of the world, then build the Keystone pipeline.

If you want to enhance our national security, while decreasing the need to put our sons and daughters in harm's way in far-off regions of the world, then build the Keystone pipeline.

I would just note quickly if you are unemployed right now and hoping for a job, having a job to only last two or three years is not a bad deal when you are looking at that or nothing.

Unconventional oil and gas development enabled by hydraulic fracturing is a rare bright spot in our otherwise gloomy economy over the last few years.

I think it invites suspicion and it begs to be answered why.

Production, not regulation, has led to a reduction in greenhouse gases, and market forces, not restrictions, quotas, or carbon trading schemes, have positioned the U.S. as a global leader in oil and gas production.

Mr. Grayson, your comment that if you know nothing, you can't say anything, very clearly, sir, you have never raised teenagers.

Thanks to fracking, the U.S. is now poised to surpass Saudi Arabia and Russia as the world's largest oil and gas producer in the next few years.

U.S. greenhouse gas emissions are at their lowest level since 1994, and have dropped 12 percent since 2005.

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it is about the future.

These models regularly overstate the actual temperature changes and have failed to predict the current 16 year absence of global warming.

These types of solutions may not be easy, but they are absolutely critical to ensure that we don't pass a terrible problem onto our children and grandchildren.

I am worried that his anticipated restrictions in industrial CO2 emissions may have no discernible impact on the climate, but will amount to a significant energy tax on the American people.

If you care about the poor and the disadvantaged among us, then you must be very careful as you consider some of the President's proposals to combat climate change.

Like all Americans, my heart and prayers go out to the people of Boston. Mr. Speaker, I'm grateful for the opportunity to stand and speak on a very important issue today. It may not be as interesting, it may not grab as much attention as…

I think the preponderance of it is, this is a Federal responsibility. It is a Governmental responsibility, and therefore, the Government is going to pay for that.

Over 66 percent of the State of Utah is controlled by the Federal Government.

The intent was to protect archeological resources in the Southwest and to limit monuments to small geographical areas.

I am adverse to the abuse of the Antiquities Act.

The number of petitions to list has greatly proliferated from an average of 20 petitions from 1994 to 2006 to more than 1,200 since 2009.