Senator Elizabeth Warren on the KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE

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Senator Elizabeth Warren speaks at a Senate Energy and Natural Resources markup of Keystone XL pipeline legislation, on January 8, 2015.

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1. Warren on why Republicans want to pass the bill...

It’s not about jobs, it’s not about energy. Why is this bill so urgent? The answer is money. Money and power. The pipeline might not do much for the American people, but it is worth a whole lot to the Canadian oil industry.

And adds, with gusto:

Who does this new Republican Congress work for: foreign oil companies or the American people? Today, their first priority is to advance a pipeline that means a whole lot to an army of well-paid lobbyists, and a whole lot to a giant, foreign oil company.

Now that is a whole lot of legitimate points. But here’s where she sinks the jump shot at the final buzzer:

… we know that this pipeline runs terrible environmental risks, and it just won’t do much to help the American people. I didn’t come here to do favors for TransCanada. Republican leaders may disagree, but I’ll be voting no on this.

http://grist.org/politics/stop-what-youre-doing-and-watch-elizabeth-warren-rip-apart-keystone/

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2. Loved the opening of this article, the wanting to do the slow clap whenever she speaks!

Ha!

And the end...she'll make C-Span the new ESPN. LOL


Great post about a great Democrat. Thank you!!