Texas congressman introduces bill to force Keystone XL approval

Here is an idea! Give them the permit (make them pay all expenses), but pull their export license as matter of nation security!

Hard to believe that texas doesnt have enough oil.Why not build a refinery in north dakota or minnesota?They havent built a new refinery for 50 years because that might lower gas prices.

They are already exporting gas out of Texas. All this will do is give them more gas to export. He says he represents the refineries. No mention of represant the people. Typical oil company rep.

Transcanada itself cast doubt on its employment forecast when a vice president for the company told CNN last fall that the 20,000 jobs Keystone would create
were temporary and that the project would likely yield only "hundreds" of permanent positions.

As Transcanada has conceded, its estimate counted up "job years" spent on the project, not jobs. In other words, the company was counting a single construction worker who worked for two years on Keystone as two jobs

Force approval? I guess someone has a lot of money riding on this.

Want to know the real reason Canada wants that trans USA pipeline? Check out cbc.ca/thenational and go to the January 16-18 2012 interviews with Steven Harper; Canada's Prime Minister.
It has nothing to do with what the news media says, or what politicians are saying as they pander for your uninformed vote this November.

Article I, section 8 of the Constitution says:
The Congress shall have Power ... To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;

However, Article I section 7 says this:
Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States; If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it.

EVERY bill.

How about introducing some leigislation that will require Rick Perry to repay the taxpayers of Texas his salary and expenses while he was out trying to get a new job.

I AM NOT GOING TO PAY FOR HIM TO NOT WORK AND BE OUT LOOKING FOR A JOB. DEMAND IT STOP NOW AND FOREVER.

Allow me to demonstrate how the Ruling Class is jackin you dumas's around.1. There are already a multitude of pipelines in use TODAY that take oil from the Tar Sands to Oil Refineries in OK and IL.2. The estimated cost of this #$%$ Keysytone Pipeline is =6Billion dollars.3. The estimated cost of a new oil refinery to produce gasoline for USA = 3billion dollars......The objective to building the Keystone Pipeline is NOT to make gasoline for you dorks so you can drive yer fat-axx Dodge Rams around the USA.......the Ruling Class wants to sell YOUR oil to China!!!.........Stop behaving like dum tools........demand that USA build NEW oil refineries in the MidWest.the Keystone Pipeline is an example of the RUling Class selling-out America.

China owns the tar sands and want to ship thier oil to TX where it will be refined and loaded onto ships and sent to China. We wont be getting a drop of it here in the USA. Why not connect to the oil pipe line already in Alaska? That way if there is a spill it will be in Canada and not the USA.

Why would they want to build pipeline that crosses the entire US all the way to Texas? Are there not plenty of refineries closer than Texas? If the oil comes from Canada why are we involved with it unless it is to make the oil companies richer by allowing them to export the oil to keep the price of gasoline outrageous?

“Congress does have the legal authority to make this decision, and that is why I filed the bill,” he said.

The BILL. Which would become law, which must be signed by who?

Yes, Article I, section 8 says:
The Congress shall have Power ... To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;

However, Article I section 7 says this:
Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States; If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it.

EVERY bill.

TransAlaska was only a US state. This pipeline is a Canadian pipeline for a Canadian oil company producing oil for a Canadian company to sell to foreign countries. If Poe is concerned about jobs, he can tell Eric Cantor to bring up Obama's Jobs Bill which would create hundreds of thousands of jobs and repair and upgrade America's infrastructure.

OK lets call a spade a spade. Today there is an over supply of oil/gasoline n this country. Yet the prices are still high. Why? Because refiners are exporting the finished product to other countries. So my question is how can any politician, republican or democrat, say this will make the country more independent? All the oil companies will do is export it. What a joke this country has become. Run by the crooked politician, CEO's and wall street. The rich for the rich and scr^% the rest. I used to believe in capitalism. But it has been corrupted to what it is today...There are good rich people and bad rich people and the problem is this country is now being run by the bad...

First it was 2500 jobs, then 4500 jobs, then 6500 jobs, then 20,000 jobs. Then I heard today on Fox "news" that we are losing 100,000 jobs by not building the XL pipeline. With this much hyperbole, I am convinced that the pipeline is a bad idea. No one has said we won't build the pipeline, only that it needs to reroute to avoid contaminating water supplies. Again, a public display of animosity towards our President and those concerned about the environment by Republicans.

Legally, the difference is that the Alaska pipeline was an intrastate and in-country project, whereas the Keystone XL project involves construction of a pipeline across national boundaries. It is the border crossing that makes the pipeline subject to a Presidential Permit.

If the Republicans do that, the bill will NOT pass.

Make this easy for everybody: ONLY ONE SUBJECT PER BILL, AND NO UNRELATED RIDERS OR AMENDMENTS. Think we can get both sides to agree?

We should have disclosure rules for our politicians when a project like this debated.
Google Boehner Keystone investments.He and no doubt others will make a lot of money here.Insider trading at its best

opps children, what's that sound? another village idiot makes his rounds????