MY SAY: DEMOCRAT KEYSTONE COPS
As our series on the election at Family Security Matters shows, construction of the Keystone Pipeline was a big and very partisan issue in the election. Many democrats wiggled on it saying they were in favor of it as long as there were limiting environmental amendments. They also proposed amendments demanding that only domestic oil be transported, oblivious to the fact that oil from Montana and North Dakota would flow through the pipeline and the millions of jobs it would create.The vast majority of the Republican challengers as well as incumbents were in favor of the Pipeline without those amendments designed to save earthworms.
Some democrats did vote in favor, most notably the recently defeated Senator Begich of Alaska. You can see the list in your state by going to:
http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2013-179-keystone-xl-tar-sands-pipeline-kxl
Please note this is an “environmentalist” score card so a vote in favor is seen as bad.
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