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| Democrats Block Keystone Bill, Landrieu's Plea Rejected |
| 2014-11-19 |
| [NATIONALJOURNAL] Mary Landrieu begged her fellow Democrats to back legislation approving the Keystone XL pipeline, looking for a lifeline in her long-shot bid to keep her Senate seat. But on Tuesday night, she fell one vote short. The Senate rejected an attempt to get cloture on the measure, with 41 senators (all Democrats or independents) voting to stall the measure. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 This was a donk protest vote. Nothing more. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2014-11-19 13:33 |
| #4 Would have guessed the Dems would pass it. Now the Republicans can bring it up next session, possibly even with a veto-proof majority. Guess all the political theater in the world wasn't as important as keeping the enviro-millions flowing into DNC coffers. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2014-11-19 12:30 |
| #3 The Donks hate the Pubs more than the Taliban or radical Islamics (AQ, ISIL, others). Under the bus with Mary Landrieu for ideology. The Pubs will bring back Keystone in January when they have control of both Houses and after the LA run-off election. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-11-19 12:03 |
| #2 Perhaps you misunderstood, Airandee. The Dems are giving the American people what they need, as defined by their twice-elected-by-almost-half-of-the-American-people Fearless Leader. We're too stoopid to know what we need. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2014-11-19 08:01 |
| #1 Wait. Where is all the great bi-partisan Dems we heard about in the election? It cannot be that the dems are now the evil obstructionists to progress that the American people want. |
| Posted by: Airandee 2014-11-19 06:22 |