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NedW Champion Author Indianapolis Posts:5,750 Points:1,167,995 Joined:Mar 2008	Message Posted: Apr 21, 2012 10:02:32 AM Ignore NedW Report Abuse Defying a White House veto threat, the House on Wednesday passed legislation that extends transportation program funding through September and mandates construction of a controversial oil pipeline from Canada to the Gulf Coast. Visit The Hill for full article

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Defying a White House veto threat, the House on Wednesday passed legislation that extends transportation program funding through September and mandates construction of a controversial oil pipeline from Canada to the Gulf Coast.
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Gnusman53 Champion Author San Diego Posts:7,188 Points:1,139,045 Joined:Feb 2004	Message Posted: Apr 23, 2012 4:35:50 AM Ignore Gnusman53 Report Abuse especially the house gop from Michigan..... where the enbridge spill is a massive toxic mess...-- you would think if the gop had half a brain, they would check the impact the spill has had....
Gnusman53 Champion Author San Diego Posts:7,188 Points:1,139,045 Joined:Feb 2004	Message Posted: Apr 23, 2012 4:32:43 AM Ignore Gnusman53 Report Abuse They flatlined decades ago...and now they are trying to kill the country too...
Gnusman53 Champion Author San Diego Posts:7,188 Points:1,139,045 Joined:Feb 2004	Message Posted: Apr 23, 2012 4:31:32 AM Ignore Gnusman53 Report Abuse On second thought.... the gop in the senate is brain dead.
Gnusman53 Champion Author San Diego Posts:7,188 Points:1,139,045 Joined:Feb 2004	Message Posted: Apr 22, 2012 6:59:05 PM Ignore Gnusman53 Report Abuse If the senate has any brain cells left, it will be removed in conference.
SammyAdams Champion Author Tallahassee Posts:3,196 Points:819,535 Joined:Nov 2010	Message Posted: Apr 22, 2012 12:07:13 AM Ignore SammyAdams Report Abuse Tsk tsk, Gas Buddies. This wasn't thwarting BO. He is getting what he wanted all along (the Transportation SPENDING Bill) and only making it appear like he has been defeated. He got House Speaker, John "Benedict Arnold" Boehner to make it look like there was some in-fighting. But in reality, and not unlike Brer Rabbit (Who pleaded to NOT throw him into the brier patch), BO got precisely what he wanted. From an earlier post: This was a victory for BO, who wants the Transportation SPENDING Bill. As I said yesterday, even if he vetos bill and the House overrides his veto, the Senate will meet in conference with the House and they will give him the "multi-year" extension of this Transportation SPENDING Bill. House Speaker John Boehner had to make it appear as though the House was wresting a victory from the President, by attaching the Keystone XL pipeline to it, but he is a Benedict Arnold and is being used (willingly) by BO to get that SPENDING bill which is what BO wanted . . . uh, what his bosses wanted all along.
apiergallini Veteran Author North Carolina Posts:389 Points:249,955 Joined:Mar 2011	Message Posted: Apr 21, 2012 3:00:34 PM Ignore apiergallini Report Abuse http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/01/18/six-reasons-keystone-xl-was-bad-deal-all-along/
Skunk63 Champion Author Phoenix Posts:2,687 Points:585,000 Joined:Oct 2011	Message Posted: Apr 21, 2012 12:47:20 PM Ignore Skunk63 Report Abuse Build it.
leraar2 Champion Author Massachusetts Posts:3,899 Points:814,405 Joined:Mar 2011	Message Posted: Apr 21, 2012 10:59:01 AM Ignore leraar2 Report Abuse VETO the bill.
MontanaMac Champion Author Washington Posts:1,736 Points:410,050 Joined:May 2011	Message Posted: Apr 21, 2012 10:05:04 AM Ignore MontanaMac Report Abuse The political dance continues.