\u00a0WASHINGTON (AP) – The Republican-controlled Senate has failed to override President Barack Obama’s veto of a bill approving the Keystone XL oil pipeline.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The 62-37 vote Wednesday was the latest chapter in the fight between the GOP-led Congress and the White House over energy policy. It was the first of many possible veto showdowns to come in Obama’s final term.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Proponents of the bill have said since its introduction that they didn’t have the vote of two-thirds of the Senate needed to override Obama’s veto.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The $8-billion pipeline would transport oil harvested from Canada’s tar sands to pipelines linked to Gulf Coast refineries. Obama said that the bill circumvented the well-established process for approving cross-border pipelines, which must be determined to be in the national interest.<\/p>\n
Senator John Hoeven Wednesday issued the following statement in response to the Senate vote to override President Obama\u2019s veto of the Keystone XL pipeline approval bill.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday the U.S. Senate cast 62 votes to override the president\u2019s veto of our bipartisan Keystone XL pipeline approval legislation, but we needed a supermajority of 67.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Senate action on Keystone comes as we are locked in a battle with OPEC to see who will supply energy to the United States. It also comes just a day after the Prime Minister of Israel cautioned us about Iran\u2019s relentless effort to develop a nuclear weapon in one of the most volatile regions of the world, and the president himself is asking Congress for an Authorization to Use Military Force in the Middle East to combat ISIS.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s why we have worked hard to make it clear that the Keystone XL pipeline project is not only about energy, jobs and economic growth, but also about national security through energy security. This project will help us source more energy from the United States and Canada, and less from foreign sources like the Middle East and Venezuela, which detained four North Dakota missionaries last week on the spurious charge of a visa violation. A solid domestic energy plan and infrastructure like the Keystone XL will help prevent any hostile nation from holding us hostage because of oil.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt this point, we will continue to press for approval of the Keystone XL pipeline by attaching a similar measure to another must-pass bill, perhaps an energy, transportation or appropriations bill.\u201d<\/p>\n
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