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Boehner: Obama 'lobbying against American jobs' with Keystone calls - TheHill.com
House Speaker John Boehner (Ohio) and other Republicans are sharply criticizing President Obama for personally lobbying Democratic senators to oppose a Senate amendment to approve the Keystone XL pipeline.
By personally lobbying against the Keystone pipeline, it means the president of the United States is lobbying for sending North American energy to China and lobbying against American jobs, the Speaker told reporters Thursday.
A White House aide confirmed that Obama has made calls to Democratic senators urging that they oppose the Keystone amendment, which is being offered on the Senate transportation bill.
Republicans have seized on the debate over the oil pipeline from Canada to hammer Obama on energy. They say construction of the pipeline will create up to 20,000 American jobs.
Boehner said he was particularly disappointed in the news because Obama had indicated to him in a meeting last week that he wanted to work with the GOP on an all-of-the-above energy agenda.
Now if were going to have bipartisan action on energy, the Keystone pipeline is an obvious place to start, Boehner said. The White House owes the American people an explanation.
The White House blasted the Keystone amendment to a Senate highway bill, which Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) predicted would fail.
"The president believes that it is wrong to play politics with a pipeline project whose route has yet to be proposed," White House press secretary Jay Carney said Thursday when asked about Obama's phone calls. He noted that an alternative route for Keystone through an ecologically sensitive area of Nebraska has not yet been determined.
Boehner: Obama 'lobbying against American jobs' with Keystone calls - TheHill.com