"Keystone has been reviewed and approved on numerous times. Even our President's [Obama's] own State Department will say that it creates 42,000 new jobs, but instead of listening to the people the President is listening to a bunch of left fringe extremists and anarchists," Boehner warned. "The President needs to listen to the American people."
The US House of Representatives are set to vote on the Keystone XL pipeline bill on Wednesday following the Senate's passage of the legislation in January voting in favor of building the 1,200-mile pipeline from Canada to the United States' Gulf of Mexico.
"Today we're going to take that bill up and send it to the president's desk to create over 40,000 American jobs. I urge the president to sign this bill," US Republican Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana said during the news conference.
"I don't think the President [Obama] should veto energy security throughout North America," Republican Representative Kevin McCarthy of California argued.
Environmental groups have been opposing the Keystone XL pipeline project and claim it will contribute to carbon emissions and climate change, while providing little benefit. However, the State Department released an environmental impact statement in January, which states that the project will have no significant impact on the environment.
