Senator Boxer's Statement on Nebraska Supreme Court Ruling on Keystone Pipeline

Washington, D.C. -- Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the statement below after the Nebraska Supreme Court overturned a lower-court ruling that blocked a state law giving the governor the ability to unilaterally approve the route of the Keystone tar sands pipeline. Although 4 of the 7 Nebraska Supreme Court justices found the state law was unconstitutional, Nebraska's Constitution requires a supermajority to make such a finding.

Senator Boxer said: "A majority of the Nebraska Supreme Court acknowledged that the process used to determine the route selected for the Keystone pipeline is unconstitutional under state law -- unfortunately they needed a supermajority. But that does not take away from the fact that the Keystone bill is a giveaway to Canadian oil interests and does nothing for America. I again call on the Republican leadership to take this bill off the floor and immediately bring up a transportation bill that will support millions of jobs - not just the 35 permanent jobs that the tar sands pipeline would create."

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