As part of his two-day trip to highlight his energy policies, President Obama stopped in Oklahoma to tout the Cushing pipeline and announce he is expediting its construction. But Obama’s event does not mesh with the truth, according to Kentucky Rep. Ed Whitfield, chairman of the House Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power. Whitfield says the pipeline from Cushing, Oklahoma, to the Gulf Coast is a privately funded venture and Obama had nothing to do with it. Whitfield says this is an attempt by the president to claim he is for pipelines while continuing to block the Keystone pipeline from Canada to Cushing. The congressman also rebuts arguments from the Obama administration that Republicans killed Keystone by demanding a hurried decision and that the GOP governor of Nebraska stopped the original plan from being pursued.