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House GOP Sets Countdown Clock For Keystone Pipeline Decision, Ignoring Project’s Actual Job Creation Potential | To pressure President Obama on deciding about the Keystone XL pipeline, House Republicans unveiled a clock counting how long it has been since Obama signed legislation requiring him to make a decision about the pipeline in 60 days. “Will President Obama choose jobs and energy security for America?” says the countdown clock unveiled Wednesday by GOP members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. “America is waiting for President Obama’s decision.” But the potential jobs created will hardly have an impact for a massive pipeline that could severely damage the environment. The only independent analysis conducted of the American job-creation potential of the Keystone XL pipeline finds that between 500 and 1,400 temporary local construction jobs will be created, and even the State Department’s more generous estimate, compiled by a TransCanada contractor, was for 5,000 temporary jobs.