Tea Party conservative (Rand Paul) blocks pipeline safety bill

[phantom power]

Tea Party conservative Sen. Rand Paul is blocking pipeline safety legislation intended to fix some of the problems that led to the rupture of a natural gas pipeline in San Bruno last year that destroyed a neighborhood and killed eight people.

Paul, a first-term Kentucky Republican whose father, Rep. Ron Paul, R-Tex. is running for president, is using his prerogative as a senator to stymie action because he is opposed in principle to adding regulations and expanding the federal government.

"Sen. Paul doesn't think new regulations and the creation of dozens of bureaucratic positions should be swept through without sufficient debate and vote," said his spokeswoman, Moira Bagley.

Paul has used his Senate privileges to put a hold on the Pipeline Transportation Safety Improvement Act of 2011, which blocks further action on the bill despite nearly unanimous bipartisan support in Congress for toughening federal regulations.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/27/MNAK1LA79U.DTL#ixzz1ZHB7m8sE

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Typical. Shame on him.

I just do not get the attitudes of people like this idiot.

Just do not.

Disgusting.

[pinto]

2. I'm all for "sufficient debate and vote", yet he's *blocking" both here.

On an infrastructure safety issue, to top it off - "rupture of a natural gas pipeline in San Bruno last year that destroyed a neighborhood and killed eight people"

Ridiculous.

:banghead:

[Zoeisright]

3. That's repukes for you. No protection for average citizens or workers, lots of

unchecked pollution, let big biz do anything and everything they want.

Kochsuckers.

[Nihil]

4. Didn't realise he was the president.

I thought it was only the POTUS who had a veto but a first-term senator
appears to have more power now than Obama?

:wtf: