ASSOCIATED PRESS: President Barack Obama’s first veto showdown with the Senate withstood an override vote Wednesday.
ASSOCIATED PRESS: President Barack Obama’s first veto showdown with the Senate withstood an override vote Wednesday.
Proponents of the Keystone bill have said since its introduction that they didn’t have the two-thirds of the Senate vote needed to override Obama’s veto. They fell four votes short. But they’ve already been discussing other ways to force the pipeline’s approval, either by attaching it onto must-pass spending bills or other, broader, energy legislation.
“If we don’t win the battle today, we will win the war because we will find another bill to attach this pipeline to,” said Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., the chief sponsor of the bill, before the vote.
