Looks like Republicans and conservative Democrats are going to try to bypass Obama on Keystone

[Cali_Democrat]

My gut feeling is that Obama will ultimately reject the pipeline.

Some info from Bloomberg:

Keystone Allies Say New Delay Aids Push to Bypass Obama
By Jim Snyder and Laura Litvan

The Obama administration’s latest Keystone XL delay is having an unintended consequence: the revival of the effort in Congress to circumvent the White House by forcing approval of the project.

While a plurality of U.S. senators are on record supporting Keystone, no bill relating to the pipeline other than a non-binding resolution has passed in the chamber. That’s because some Democrats who back it haven’t wanted to usurp President Barack Obama’s authority to make the final call.

“We’ll have to start counting noses again,” first-term Senator Heidi Heitkamp, a North Dakota Democrat, said after the State Department announced last week it was again delaying a recommendation. “Now that this process has taken a turn for the worse, I think we need to have those discussions again.”

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It would require two-thirds of the Senate -- or 67 members -- to override an almost certain presidential veto. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, in charge of the agenda and a pipeline foe, has declined to bring up legislation that would bypass Obama on Keystone.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-23/keystone-allies-say-new-delay-aids-push-to-bypass-obama.html

[JI7]

1. looks like it wont even come up as long as Harry Reid is in charge

unless they can convince him to bring it up.

[Larkspur]

2. Another reason Dems have to keep the US Senate

even if that means supporting Blue Dogs for the time being.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Hold firm, Senator Reid! We cannot let those people bypass the process. n/t

[tularetom]

4. So they sit around for a couple years and wait until Hillary Clinton is elected

and she gives it a thumbs up.

They can afford to wait.