President Obama nixed the Keystone/ XL pipeline deal that would’ve produced thousands of Americans jobs to appease his environmentalists' base.
So we’ll if the bill gets by the Democrat controlled Senate if the Dems are really for jobs or politics.
The Daily Mail reports Republicans pushed legislation through the House Tuesday night on to the Senate saving the Social Security payroll tax cuts but also the proposed Canada-to-Texas oil pipeline which faces White House veto.
Passed on a largely party-line vote of 234-193, the measure is sent toward its certain demise in the Democratic-controlled Senate, triggering the final partisan showdown of a remarkably quarrelsome year of divided government.
The legislation 'extends the payroll tax relief, extends and reforms unemployment insurance and protects Social Security — without job-killing tax hikes,' Republican House Speaker John Boehner declared after the measure had cleared.
Referring to the controversy over the Keystone XL pipeline, he added, 'Our bill includes sensible, bipartisan measures to help the private sector create jobs.'
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President Obama can’t run on his abysmal record as president that has produced a job aprroval rating in the low 40s. So he’s trying to create a fiction of a do-nothing congress with a generous helping of “class warfare” added to his recipe for re-election.
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