Congressman Markwayne Mullin (OK-02) today issued the following statement after President Barack Obama rejected the application for the completion of the Keystone XL oil pipeline:

“For over seven years, the president made a deliberate effort to block the completion of the Keystone XL pipeline, an important job creating project that has benefited Oklahomans. With his decision today, the president has continued his pattern of turning his back on struggling Americans and played into the hands of pocketbook environmentalists.

“The president has no excuse for rejecting this project. His own Department of State confirmed the pipeline posed little environmental risk, while the benefits for our economy and American families would have been substantial. The president cannot continue to put special interest groups and party politics ahead of the will of the American people.”

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