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Captain Obvious
01-30-2015, 09:54 AM
Rollin, rollin....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH94dg20Osg

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/01/29/382430179/senate-prepares-to-ok-keystone-xl-oil-pipeline-despite-obama-veto-threat


The Senate in a bipartisan 62-to-36 vote approved Thursday the Keystone XL pipeline project, setting up a faceoff with the White House, which has threatened a presidential veto.

Nine Democrats joined 53 Republicans to pass the measure, which now must be reconciled with a version passed last month by the House. The Senate vote is also not enough to override a presidential veto.

NPR's Ailsa Chang tells our Newscast unit the measure is the first passed by the Senate in the new Congress. She says the Senate worked through dozens of amendments over three weeks despite the veto threat.

The U.S. State Department, which has been reviewing the pipeline for more than six years, is now deciding whether the project to carry oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico is in the national interest. Congressional Republicans want to short-circuit that years-long process and grant the Keystone XL pipeline a permit immediately.

As we have previously reported, the "pipeline is a hot-button political issue, with politicians from both parties, some unions and energy companies supporting its approval while environmental groups, some Nebraska landowners and some liberal Democrats oppose it."

Cigar
01-30-2015, 10:51 AM
VETO

Next!

Peter1469
01-30-2015, 06:20 PM
Obama: the No president. :smiley:

Professor Peabody
01-31-2015, 04:05 AM
VETO

Next!

Then the oil companies pump up the prices and Obama and the Democrats get the blame. How could they not see that one coming.

Hillary for President.......NEXT!