{"id":66224,"date":"2015-02-24T14:30:51","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T20:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=66224"},"modified":"2015-02-24T15:08:43","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T21:08:43","slug":"xl-pipeline-bill-to-president-tues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=66224","title":{"rendered":"Obama vetos XL pipeline bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/xlKeystoneMap.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-43888\" alt=\"xlKeystoneMap\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/xlKeystoneMap-300x202.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/xlKeystoneMap-300x202.png 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/xlKeystoneMap-259x175.png 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/xlKeystoneMap.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; President Barack Obama has vetoed a Republican bill forcing construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0The White House sent notice of the veto to the Senate on Tuesday, shortly after the bill was received at the White House. It&#8217;s the third veto of Obama&#8217;s presidency.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The move puts a freeze on a top GOP priority, at least for now. It also reasserts Obama&#8217;s authority over a project that&#8217;s become a flashpoint in the national debate about climate change.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Congressional Republicans may try to override Obama&#8217;s veto, but have yet to show they can muster the two-thirds majority in both chambers that they would need. Sen. John Hoeven, the bill&#8217;s chief GOP sponsor, says Republicans are about four votes short in the Senate and need about 11 more in the House.<\/p>\n<p>The White House has said repeatedly it will wait to make its decision about whether to let the project go forward until after a State Department review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; President Barack Obama has vetoed a Republican bill forcing construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The White House sent notice of the veto to the Senate on Tuesday, shortly after the bill was received at the White House. It&#8217;s the third veto of Obama&#8217;s presidency. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66224"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66279,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66224\/revisions\/66279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}