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US Speaker of the House John Boehner holds a press conference following Obama's rejection of the Keystone project
Alex Wong
Speaker of the House John Boehner stands next to a map of current oil pipelines during a news conference in January 2012 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. TransCanada Corp announced Monday it would go ahead with construction of part of its Keystone XL oil pipeline that does not require US presidential approval, a stretch from the state of Oklahoma to the US Gulf Coast.