Obama's Irresponsible Keystone XL Veto Threat

Investor's Business Daily ^ | February 2, 2015 | IBD EDITORIALS

[raptor22]

Stimulus: Obama says jobs from the Keystone project aren't permanent and it's just one pipeline that will move foreign oil to foreign markets. But fixing the bridge he once used as a prop didn't create permanent jobs either.

'Let's set our sights above a single pipeline," the leader of the party of infrastructure told Congress in the State of the Union. But this Congress has 80 more Republicans than when he took office, and on Thursday the Senate rejected his admonition by a 62-36 vote.

Eight Democrats crossed the aisle after a series of amendment votes, a process that had vanished under former Majority Leader Harry Reid. While not approved with a veto-proof majority, the Keystone bill, after House approval, will head to Obama's desk, where stopping the pipeline will finally put the onus on him and him alone.

[thackney]

Stop trying to grow the Federal Governments manipulation of private industry. We need to shrink and starve the beast, not feed it more and make it grow.

[blackdog]

Regulating interstate commerce is one thing that is referred to in the constitution as a federally enumerated power. The Keystone pipeline is exactly such. Lets let Obama play where he belongs.

[thackney]

Your suggestion was not regulation of interstate commerce.

It was to supply a specific additional tax to one single pipeline not applied to all the other pipelines that already bring Canadian Crude into the US.

Why does TransCanada’s pipeline, but only one of theirs, get a special tax that does not apply to Enbridge’s or others? Why would such a tax not apply to trains and trucks?

Quit trying to use the Federal Government to pick winners and losers in private industry.

[blackdog]

I beg to differ with you.

Interstate Commerce Act Law & Legal Definition-

The Interstate Commerce Act was passed by the U.S. Congress in 1887 and created the Interstate Commerce Commission. It was designed to address the concerns about the monopoly of the railroads in existence at the time. It was a law that established the right of Congress to regulate private corporations engaged in interstate commerce.

Interstate commerce refers to the purchase, sale or exchange of commodities, transportation of people, money or goods, and navigation of waters between different states. Interstate commerce is regulated by the federal government as authorized under Article I of the U.S. Constitution. The federal government can also regulate commerce within a state when it may impact interstate movement of goods and services and may strike down state actions which are barriers to such movement.

[Still Thinking]

Lets make stuff and sell it to other countries. What’s wrong with that?

If it doesn't increase dependence on gooberment and provide more chances for your betters to tell you what to do and when to do it, what's to like? -- Ebola

[jdsteel]

You know, there were no permenant jobs involved when I built my house. Should we stop people from building homes because of that?

[thackney]

So you believe that allows the feds to apply Tax penalties to one company moving the same product in the same manor as other companies, but not applied to the others?

Quit trying to grow federal regulations and taxes.