[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 32 (Wednesday, February 25, 2015)]
[House]
[Page H1124]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         KEYSTONE PIPELINE VETO

  (Mr. McCLINTOCK asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. McCLINTOCK. Mr. Speaker, for more than 6 years, the President has 
called for taxpayer-funded infrastructure projects. In the first year 
of his administration, he squandered nearly $1 trillion on so-called 
shovel-ready projects that he later joked weren't shovel ready at all. 
Mr. Speaker, $1 trillion is $8,000 taken from every family in America, 
on average. That is what we spent. That is what he joked about when it 
turned out we got very little for it.
  Now along comes the Keystone pipeline. It promises $8 billion of 
private investment at no cost to taxpayers. That major infrastructure 
project would have produced 42,000 construction-related jobs and, when 
finished, more than a half million barrels a day of Canadian crude oil 
entering the American economy. That is what he vetoed after it was sent 
to him with bipartisan votes out of both Houses.
  He calls this middle class economics. The reality is it is a war on 
the middle class. And that is no joke.

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