this is the president then after the nldc, the sierra club that mr. cassidy pointed out during his statement on the last amendment said that this was going to be the line, this pipelines going to be the line in the sand that the environmental community drew for the president. the president replied to that by saying i'm going to delay this until after the election. it is the president who made this a political football when he said he was going to put his election year politics ahead of the betts interest of this nation and this pipeline. so that is what put us in this predicament. and we're not going to go back to the politics that's being played within the white house right now. so this is the best mechanism, the means forward. if says we're going to take all the work product that the state department said was sufficient, we'd carve out that 30 mile or maybe 40 mile, maybe 50 mile jog in the state of nebraska and let that proceed but start on what's already been done. so let's get on with it. let's put the politics aside. the president left us no cho