Payroll tax cut legislation that would force President Obama to speed up a decision on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline would likely keep the project from moving forward because it would cut short the necessary environmental review, Obama administration and State Department officials said on Saturday.
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The two-month extension of the payroll tax cut, which cleared the Senate on Saturday, includes a Republican provision that would compel the president to decide the fate of the pipeline within 60 days. It would also allow any changes to the pipeline route to bypass the National Environmental Policy Act, which subjects major federal projects to review.
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The president had vowed to veto any bill that included conditions on Keystone XL, but the Republican rider has put him in the position of having to kill the project during election season or allow it to move forward without full, federal environmental safeguards, certain to outrage environmental groups.
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