Congress Readies Vote on Keystone Pipeline

The U.S. Congress is gearing up to vote on a bill in the coming days which would approve the controversial Keystone Pipeline project.

According to the Guardian:

The decision by Democratic leaders in the Senate to schedule a vote for Tuesday next week on the Keystone legislation was taken after the party’s Louisiana senator, Mary Landrieu, spent Wednesday afternoon engaged in a high-stakes bid to force the vote.

Landrieu, a longtime critic of Obama’s energy policy, is locked in a tight re-election battle against Republican congressman Bill Cassidy, which will be resolved in a runoff on 6 December, after neither managed to gain the 50% required for an outright victory in the midterms last week.

Mary Landrieu, a Louisiana senator seeking re-election, said:

The public has clearly spoken. The bill needs to be approved today. Not in January, not in February, not in March.

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