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In reply to the discussion: Now we are starting to hear from China: "We don't want your dirty tar sands oil" [View all]Samantha
(9,314 posts)I left the thread to do a little research on this subject and was amazed at some of things I found. I can't go into it now in detail, but the one thing that really startled me was that the Republicans drafted a bill to circumvent Presidential approval of the pipeline. They might have even passed it, but of course did not send it to the Senate. Approval of this pipeline is clearly within the Executive Branch's purview, but it seems the Legislation Branch, particularly House Republicans, are trying to make a power grab on this issue.
The reason this is so glaring is that they threaten to impeach Obama for attempting to exceed his authority. He is making a grab for authority which clearly belongs to the Congress (so they say). This is just too much.
Thanks again for your wonderful contribution to this thread.
Sam