Senate Defies Obama, Passes Bill Approving Keystone Pipeline

Senate Defies Obama, Passes Bill Approving Keystone Pipeline | TheBlaze.com:
"It’s possible House Republicans will take up the Senate bill as early as next week.
But House passage would set up the next challenge of how to get around Obama’s veto threat. Despite bipartisan support for the bill, the administration has continued to argue that it would usurp the president’s authority to oversee the regular approval process.
Republicans have scoffed at this answer, since it’s already been more than six years since the application to build the pipeline was first submitted. As Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas) put it earlier this year, “The permitting for the Keystone pipeline has taken longer than it took for the United States to win World War II.”