A Senator grew some balls!

And the Keystone Pipeline may not be dead after all!

H.R. 3548, submitted by Lee Terry, R-Neb., would take the decision out of Obama’s hands and order the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or FERC, to issue a permit within 30 days.

 Some say the decision never belonged to the president anyway.

This was right up at the top, this is nearer the middle:

Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., also spoke at the Jan. 25 hearing and explained that the deadlines both Jones and President Obama referenced were anything but “arbitrary.”

“Last July, the House passed a bill requiring the State Department to make its long-overdue decision on Keystone XL by Nov. 1. It was truly a bipartisan effort, with 47 Democrats joining nearly all Republicans in supporting this reasonable measure,” he said. “The bill probably would have garnered even more votes if not for the administration’s repeated assurances that it is going to make a decision before the end of 2011, and that a legislated deadline is not necessary.

“Unfortunately, as the end of the year approached, the administration reversed position and postponed its decision to 2013 at the earliest.

“In response, Congress gave the president a second chance to do the right thing by providing him another 60 days to approve Keystone XL as part of the payroll tax bill, but last week he decided to reject the project.”

I’m going along with something I read in another post of less interest, but the wording of a comment was to the effect that BHO the SCOAMF was not stupid, but was intentionally trying to make America a third world country. Well, we know that from it’s own statement about doing things by EO if Congress failed to do as it told them.

What was that about separation of authorities? It was on that stupid piece of paper written way back. the, uhm,… Constitution! Yeah, that was it, Constitution!

This is nearer the bottom:

Rep. Ed Whitfield, R-Ky., also spoke at the hearing, noting, “The phrase ‘national interest’ should be somewhat simple to understand.”

“If the nation is plagued by persistent unemployment and a private company is willing to spend $7 billion to construct an infrastructure project, putting over 100,000 people to work – that sounds like something that serves the national interest,” he said. “If our president decides that sending aircraft carrier strike groups to the Strait of Hormuz to defend oil flow is in the national interest, then one would also think a pipeline from Canada that would help eliminate our Middle East oil imports also serves the national interest.”

There was much more to that entire article, MUCH more. Those were some pretty fair teasers though, and I guess I should have said Some, not A on that ball growing part. And thrown in the Representatives on that. Whatever the entirety of it, this might be a show of American interest coming to the fore amongst the people!

Now we must pray that enough OF the Senate stands in support of the House. Perhaps my title was a bit off, but it sounded better somehow.

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