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Today, after seven long years of poorly veiled partisan obstruction, the Obama administration rejected the application from the TransCanada Corporation to continue the Keystone XL oil pipeline project. American Encore Policy Director Patrick Hedger offered the following statement:
“There is an unspoken reality to the issue of the Keystone XL pipeline project. On...
This Friday, Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) will retire as both Speaker of the House and from Congress altogether. All week his office has been sending out sentimental messages and content, thanking his colleagues and reflecting on his 24 year career in the House.
One of these messages, a tweet and video from the Speaker’s office, caught our attention:
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By: Patrick Hedger, Policy Director
In a party-line 244-185 vote, the House of Representatives approved a bill which would remove the four decade-old ban on US crude oil exports. The legislation must now pass the Senate and be signed in to law by President Obama, who has unfortunately threatened to veto such legislation.
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By: Patrick Hedger-Policy Director, American Encore
American Encore has joined a coalition composed of 20 prominent conservative and free market advocacy groups to demand Congress lift the Oil Export Ban. The ban is a pointless policy put into place by politicians grossly misguided on energy policy and economics during the 1970s. Since then, the export ban has deterred exploration and...
Yesterday, at almost the exact same time Pope Francis's plane touched down at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland to begin his historic trip to the United States, former Secretary of State and leading Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton announced her position on the Keystone XL pipeline project. In what can only be seen as a desperate attempt to shore up support amongst...
