joined with senator begich from alaska and other senators on the senator, my friend, senator height caisson. i woul-- senator heitkamp. i would urge our resolution, which we believe will have more than 60 votes, will urge the president and push us to a place where we can approve the keystone pipeline as an important infrastructure component to our efforts to greatly expand domestic production. there's horizontal drilling that's going on. there's fracking that can be done very safely and with a minimum environmental blueprint. there are some opportunities, as the chairman knows, to export gas. we are a big gas producer and consumer, so i understand the balance that's necessary. we most certainly don't want to export 100% of our production, but we do need to export enough to understand is a significant pall to -- to send a signal to the marketplace that if you risk your moi money to find it vula market pour it. that is just the fundamentals of any kind of market, whether it is the cotton market the oil market or the gas market. they all operate the same. so we're excited about what's happenin