Pickens testifies before Congress on plan to curb dependence on foreign oil ..

See the full story from CNNMoney.com on Yahoo! Finance. A few select quotes:

"Our country is in a deep hole and it's time to stop digging," said Pickens, founder and principal of BP Capital, in testimony before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., the committee's chairman, praised Pickens' plan, calling it a "classically American message of can-do optimism."

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