This is just the stupidest thing ever and it is a great example of two things: 1) The Democrat Party is just horrible and 2) Tom Carper is absolutely an out and out fucker. Seriously, wait to you read his statement. It is a goddam doozy.
Keystone on the move in Congress
By Elana Schor11/12/14 10:03 PM EST
Updated 11/13/14 6:42 AM EST
The Keystone XL pipeline is about to get a vote in both houses of Congress — but it still could fall short of reaching President Barack Obama’s desk.
The Keystone drama began Wednesday when Democratic leaders cleared the way for Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu to seek a vote on a pro-pipeline bill that could bolster her standing at home before her Dec. 6 runoff against Rep. Bill Cassidy. Then after aides in both parties suggested their opponents would object, the embattled Landrieu won bipartisan agreement to take up a proposal that she has been pushing throughout the campaign season.
In the House, Republicans quickly announced a vote as early as Thursday on a version of Landrieu’s Keystone bill with Cassidy’s name on it. When Landrieu did not object to a Republican request that Cassidy’s House bill be the measure ultimately sent to Obama — not her own — the Senate agreed to a Tuesday vote on the $8 billion pipeline.
The White House stopped short of a veto threat against the bill, but spokesman Josh Earnest gave it a chilly welcome in Myanmar, where he was traveling with the president. “The administration has taken a dim view of these kinds of legislative proposals in the past. … It’s fair to say that our dim view of these kinds of proposals has not changed,” Earnest told reporters, according to Reuters.
And Obama’s opinion won’t even matter unless Landrieu can find 60 pro-Keystone votes in the Senate, where pipeline backers have counted only 57 backers for months. That count appeared to rise to 58 on Wednesday, when Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) agreed to back the bill.
Carper “believes it is time to set politics aside and move forward in a bipartisan manner to address this complicated question,” his spokeswoman said. “He is hopeful that moving forward with this bipartisan bill will pave the way for Congress to work together on other measures to increase our energy independence while also addressing the real environmental and public health threats we face from greenhouse gas pollution.”
Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware, a Democrat previously courted by Keystone supporters, suggested that his position on yanking the pipeline from Obama’s purview is unchanged. Lawmakers should not be “issuing construction permits,” he said in a brief interview.
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