I think this Keystone Pipeline idea is a awful idea.
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He understands the pipeline represents a political predicament for the Democratic front-runner.
“She amazed me, she had no notes, she seemed to answer all the questions very reasonably and with a great deal of knowledge”, Pat Spaloss of Nashuas said before leaving the event.
“I thought she avoided the question completely”, he told CNN. “I’m not that naive”. “But that doesn’t make it the right thing to do”.
Clinton said she and her husband paid an effective federal tax rate of 35.7 percent and a combined federal, state, and local effective rate of 45.8 percent past year.
Hillary Clinton says she’ll take a firm position for or against the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, but only after it’s already been decided by the current administration or after she’s elected president in 2016.
Few constituencies that Clinton cares about back the pipeline, though a small number of unions have supported it, so she has little to gain for condoning it and much to lose.
In other news, fellow female presidential contender Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO seeking the GOP nomination, spent Tuesday telling voters very specifically what she’d do as president during a speech at the Reagan Presidential Library. Yet she’s refusing to answer this specific energy-related question. Bernie Sanders, Clinton’s top challenger who generally refrains from criticizing her directly, responded by saying that he has led the fight against Keystone in the Senate. “But she still found wiggle room”, Blodgett said in an interview. That’s what it’s there for … A final decision is expected by the end of the year. Jeb Bush thinks it’s a “no-brainer”.
“Supporting Keystone XL and North American energy security is an easy one”. Republicans blamed Clinton of ducking the issue. She concluded, “So that’s where I’m leaving it”.
O’Malley has pressed the Democratic field to support reinstating the law that separated the business of commercial and investment banking, which was repealed during President Bill Clinton’s administration. But both have now become litmus tests for key segments of the liberal base – putting her in an awkward position.
“Keystone is also a proxy for other questions about extreme energy: Will she stand up to the fossil fuel industry on opening the arctic to oil exploration”, McKibben stated.
“It is hogwash”, said Jane Kleeb, who helped organize Nebraska ranchers against the project.
Finer, a former Washington Post reporter, was to testify about what Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., called the department’s “compliance failures” in turning over emails to and from 10 senior Clinton officials during her time in office.
MSNBC’s Alex Wagner questioned Hillary Clinton’s decision not to weigh in on the Keystone Pipeline XL debate Wednesday.
It added that the whole point of elections is to have voters hear from candidates.
Climate change proposals would be the focus of Clinton’s campaign, she announced Monday. Or is the coming decision going to reject the project?
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“If the State Department does not fulfill this production, or if production continues to be anemic and underwhelming, we will move forward with scheduling a compliance hearing before the Committee”, Gowdy said.
