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FoxNews.com 1/9/2015 The House easily passed a bill on Friday authorizing construction of the Keystone pipeline, just hours after Nebraska’s highest court tossed a lawsuit challenging the route — increasing pressure on President Obama to approve the long-delayed project. The House approved the bill on a 266-153 vote, with 28 Democrats joining majority Republicans in […] January 9th, 2015 | Tags: filibuster, Keystone XL pipeline project, Presidential veto, Rep. Fred Upton, TransCanada | Category: Barack Obama, Canada, Congress, Energy, Nebraska, Politics, State Department | Comments are closed
DW Ulsterman Ulsterman Books 12/1/2014 World oil powers such as Saudi Arabia and other OPEC nations, Russia and Venezuela are stunned at the dramatic increases in U.S. energy production – an increase that has them scrambling to try and prepare for lower cost oil that will place considerable pressure upon their own bottom lines. It […] December 1st, 2014 | Tags: domestic energy production, fracking, Keystone XL pipeline project, Marcellus Shale, oil prices, Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), protests | Category: Barack Obama, Energy, federal regulations, Middle East, Russia, Venezuela | Comments are closed
Sean Higgins The Washington Examiner 11/19/2014 A top union leader slammed the Senate’s rejection of a bill to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, calling it a “vote against all construction workers” and saying that Democratic lawmakers “cowardly” knuckled under to pressure from the White House. Other unions also criticized the Senate. Terry O’Sullivan, president of […] November 20th, 2014 | Tags: AFL-CIO, Democrats, Keystone XL pipeline project, Laborers International Union of North America, Richard L. Trumka, Sen. Mary Landrieu, Teamsters, Terry O'Sullivan | Category: Barack Obama, Congress, Employment, Energy, State Department, Unions | Comments are closed
Zack Colman The Washington Examiner 11/17/2014 Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., told reporters that she has enough votes to pass a bill to build the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline, which comes up for a vote Tuesday. Asked whether the vote count was still at 59 — one shy of the 60 needed to blow up […] November 17th, 2014 | Tags: Keystone XL pipeline project, Sen. Mary Landrieu | Category: Barack Obama, Canada, Congress, Energy, Politics, State Department | Comments are closed
Kevin Mooney The Daily Signal 8/11/2014 Democrat billionaire Tom Steyer has donated more than $20 million to candidates and outside groups to influence this year’s election, making him the top individual contributor in 2014. And that’s just a fraction of the $50 million Steyer has said he’s willing to spend. The San Francisco-based environmental activist […] August 11th, 2014 | Tags: campaign contributions, corporate welfare, cronyism, Farallon Capital Management, Keystone XL pipeline project, Mission Bay Project, Nancy Pelosi, Tom Steyer | Category: California, Congress, Elections, Politicians, Taxes | Comments are closed
Pipeline supporters allege double standard Lachlan Markay The Washington Free Beacon 7/28/2014 The wife of a leading House Democrat owned stock in a top competitor to the company behind the Keystone XL pipeline while he raised red flags about potential conflicts of interest in the government’s review of the project, documents show. Rep. Raul Grijalva […] July 28th, 2014 | Tags: conflict of interest, Eco-hypocrites, Enbridge Energy Partners, Keystone XL pipeline project, Rep. Raul Grijalva, TransCanada | Category: Arizona, Barack Obama, Congress, corruption, Energy, Environment, Politicians, State Department | Comments are closed
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