The Senate passed 89-10 a compromise measure to extend the payroll tax cut. Under the measure, the payroll tax rate would stay the same until February. The deal also includes the so-called "doc fix" which sets reimbursement rates for Medicare providers, a two month extension of unemployment insurance, and language relating to the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to the U.S.
What is going on there in Washington? It looks like the Republicans are holding the government hostage again. What has the Keystone XL pipeline to do with the welfare of the American people?
Are we continuing to feed into the oil-addiction only to benefit private energy conglomerate like Koch Industries and TransCanada?
How can we ignore statements from leading conservation biologists at the Center for Biological Diversity like Tierra Curry who said, “The Keystone XL Pipeline is an environmental disaster in the making! The pipeline threatens the survival of at least 20 endangered species, risks contaminating the drinking water of millions of Americans, and spirals us further toward catastrophic climate change.”
I know the argument is going to be again, 20 endangered species will not fill-up my tank, or this pipeline is the safest in the world. Just like in the Golf of Mexico. It was also the safest way of drilling until it polluted the Golf for decades of even centuries to come!
Have the members of the House become so greedy that the interest of conglomerates are more important that the wellbeing of ordinary American who have voted them into office?
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