Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.) does not want to let the opportunity provided by the payroll tax extension go to waste saying, “when a train is leaving the station in this town, you do tend to try to put as much freight on it as possible.”
Appearing on MSNBC’s Martin Bashir program, Kingston suggested that some controversial provisions might be added to the payroll tax extension, including the Keystone pipeline, the construction of which President Obama rejected.
“Its possible that the Keystone pipeline or some of these other energy issues that relate to jobs may be included,” Kingston said.
House Republicans passed a two-month extension of the payroll tax cut in December after an extended fight with the White House, Democrats and the Senate over the length of the proposal. That extension is scheduled to expire at the end of February.
