Ted Cruz Amendment Would Be Difficult Vote For Some GOP Senators
http://www.nationaljournal.com/energy/ted-cruz-makes-life-difficult-for-republicans-on-oil-exports-20150113
Texas senator proposes rolling back ban on oil exports
January 13, 2015
Ted Cruz is making waves.
The Republican senator from Texas and likely 2016 presidential contender has started a push to end a decades-old ban on crude exports that could force his fellow Republicans to take tough votes.
Cruz hopes to attach an amendment lifting the ban, which blocks most overseas shipments of U.S. oil, to legislation moving through the Senate to greenlight the Keystone XL oil-sands pipeline.
The push allows Cruz to cast himself as a free-market enabler of the American energy boom, which has unleashed a torrent of crude oil onto the domestic market as a result of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling’s one-two punch. It also puts him out front on energy priorities—ahead of others in the Senate considering presidential bids, including Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida and Rand Paul of Kentucky, who have so far kept a low profile during the Keystone debate.
Free markets..., now there’s soemthing we haven’t had enough of.
40 million plus people out of work, and free markets is the answer. LMAO
How many people did we have out of work in 1990?
How many people do we have out of work today?
Yep, Free Markets will save us.
I believe Ted Cruz is dead wrong on this one.