President Obama will tout his job proposals Friday at a Maryland dredging company — whose CEO pushed for the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline Thursday before Congress.
"For us, it’s all about jobs," Ellicott Dredges CEO Peter Bowe said during his testimony Thursday before a House small business committee hearing.
"I think environmentalists are people, too," Bowe said Thursday. "But the trouble is many of them are extremists who frankly would like to see businesses like mine, they wouldn’t care if it was put out of business, because they don’t care if we have cars and trucks that move goods around this country."
"I think the majority of people do want that type of activity going on, so we should move ahead with this as quickly as we can," he continued.
The president’s dark money group Organizing for Action has drawn scrutiny this week for its refusal to take a position on Keystone, despite its posture as a nonpartisan policy-based group.
