Cramer Statement on Hillary Clinton's Opposition to Keystone XL Pipeline

Statement

Congressman Kevin Cramer released the following statement after Democratic Presidential candidate and former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced her opposition to building the Keystone XL Pipeline.

It's been seven years this week since TransCanada first applied for a permit to build the Keystone XL Pipeline. Hillary Clinton's announcement just confirms what everyone has known for all these years. As Secretary of State, her tenure was marked with delays and excuses in the Keystone XL approval process. The Democratic Party and Secretary Clinton continue to be held hostage by the views of radical environmentalists with nothing to lose. It is ironic Hillary Clinton thinks the Keystone Xl Pipeline would contribute to global warming when the reality is the project will have lower emissions than shipping it by rail, truck and barge to global markets. Her argument is completely false and raises the question of the integrity of her entire position. This project would create thousands of high-paying jobs, replace crude oil from Venezuela with crude from our friend and ally, Canada, and provide the safest transportation via pipeline to name a few of the many benefits this project brings to bear.

Cramer sponsored H.R. 3, the Keystone XL Pipeline Act, which would approve the pipeline project and passed on a bipartisan majority with 238 Republicans and 28 Democrats voting in favor on January 9.

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