{"id":1779,"date":"2014-11-19T06:25:55","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T11:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1779"},"modified":"2014-11-19T06:25:55","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T11:25:55","slug":"keystone-xl-bill-fails-to-advance-al-jazeera-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1779","title":{"rendered":"Keystone XL bill fails to advance | Al Jazeera America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/america.aljazeera.com\/articles\/2014\/11\/18\/keystone-xl-billgoesdownindefeat59to41.html\">Keystone XL bill fails to advance | Al Jazeera America<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26px; color: #000000; margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px;\">WASHINGTON \u2014\u00a0The Senate stopped just short of approving the long-delayed and controversial Keystone XL pipeline Tuesday night. The 59-to-41 vote, with 14 Democrats joining all 45 Republicans in favor of approving the Keystone XL measure, was just shy of the 60 votes needed for the legislation to advance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26px; color: #000000; margin: 20px 0px 20px 0px;\">The harrowingly close results spare President Barack Obama from having to choose whether or not to issue a veto on Keystone XL, which has proven a divisive and polarizing issue for the duration of his administration, pitting environmental concerns against the initiative&#8217;s job-creation potential.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26px; color: #000000; margin: 20px 0px 20px 0px;\">After stalling and skirting the issue for years, Majority Leader Harry Reid chose\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #2677b9; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/america.aljazeera.com\/articles\/2014\/11\/12\/keystone-landrieu.html\">to at last schedule a vote on the project<\/a>\u00a0in the lame duck session, ostensibly to help embattled Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu, a fellow Democrat, secure re-election. After garnering less than 50 percent of the vote on election night, Landrieu will face Republican opponent Rep. Bill Cassidy, R-La. in a Dec. 6 runoff vote, in which her chances of holding her seat are looking increasingly slim.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26px; color: #000000; margin: 20px 0px 20px 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keystone XL bill fails to advance | Al Jazeera America. WASHINGTON \u2014\u00a0The Senate stopped just short of approving the long-delayed and controversial Keystone XL pipeline Tuesday night. The 59-to-41 vote, with 14 Democrats joining all 45 Republicans in favor of approving the Keystone XL measure, was just shy of the 60 votes needed for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1238,468,1237],"class_list":["post-1779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-barak-obama","tag-keystone-xl","tag-us-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1780,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions\/1780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}