On Thursday May 16 2013, at 10:00 A.M., the Committee on Small Business Subcommittee on Agriculture, Energy and Trade held a hearing titled,  If You Build It: Keystone XL Pipeline and Small Business Job Growth. The hearing was held in Room 2360 of the Rayburn House Office Building.

The purpose of the hearing was to review economic benefits to small businesses and rural communities where construction of the Keystone XL pipeline will take place.

Opening Statement:

Chairman Scott Tipton (R-CO)

Witnesses and Testimony:

Mr. Brent Booker, Secretary Treasurer, Building and Construction Trades Department, Department, AFL-CIO, Washington, DC

• Witness Testimony
• Witness Disclosure

 

Mr. Peter Bowe, President and CEO, Ellicott Dredges, Baltimore, MD

• Testifying on behalf of the National Association of Manufacturers
• Witness Testimony
• Witness Disclosure

Mr. Mat Brainerd, President, Brainerd Chemical Company, Tulsa, OK

• Testifying on Behalf of the National Association of Chemical Distributors
• Witness Testimony    
• Witness Disclosure

 

Dr. Christopher R. Knittel, William Barton Rogers Professor of Energy Economics, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

• Witness Testimony
• Witness Disclosure

 

Additional Items:  

Hearing Notice

Witness List

Hearing Memo

Press Release

Hearing Video