Rand Paul’s opposition to pipeline safety bill is Dereliction of Duty.
We ask our military to make the ultimate sacrifice for this nation and its people and we assume that sending politicians to state and federal institutions would do the same. This apparently not the case involving Kentucky Senator Rand Paul and a bill to strengthen safety rules for oil and gas pipelines. According to an article written by Joan Lowy for the Associated Press titled Senator blocks pipeline safety bill on principle, “a senator who opposes federal regulation on philosophical grounds is single-handedly blocking legislation that would strengthen safety rules for oil and gas pipelines, a bill that even the pipeline industry and companies in his own state support. Republican Sen. Rand Paul's opposition to the bill hasn't wavered even after a gas pipeline rupture last week shook people awake in three counties in his home state of Kentucky. A deadly gas pipeline explosion near San Francisco last year — along with other recent gas explosions and oil pipelin...