Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I know I made a comment last week in camera that I thought you did an excellent job of chairing our committee, and I want to put that on the record today. I think you're doing a fine job today as well.
I want to thank our witnesses for being here. This has been very interesting testimony. I appreciate the recommendations that have been made here today.
I'm going to focus my questions on Mr. Blakely and Mr. Donihee.
I appreciated it when you said, “A pipeline is an infrastructure link”, Mr. Blakely, and that a failure to build a pipeline has a restraining effect on the industries that depend on it.
I would like to give you an opportunity to elaborate or describe for me the kinds of jobs that are created from building and maintaining a pipeline, and potentially how many jobs we may be looking at when you consider some of the proposals that are in front of us right now.