CNN Just Reporting: . KXL measure lacks the 60 votes needed for construction

[misterhighwasted]

Last edited Fri May 2, 2014, 01:48 PM - Edit history (1)

Great news. This has to be stopped.

Thank You Nebraska for standing your ground.
Thanks to the 60 Senators who can hold this vote up.
Hope they don't change their minds

[packman]

1. 60 Senators?

Are you saying 60 out of 100 senators are against it?

[Gore1FL]

15. I think it's more than 40 are against it. n/t

[Indyfan53]

2. Hallelujah!

Halle-fucking-lujah! We are being heard!

GOTV IN NOVEMBER!!!!

[riqster]

3. This ^^^^

[Sanity Claws]

4. This doesn't make sense

60 votes total are needed to pass something and avoid a filibuster that would prevent a vote.

If something fell 60 votes short, then nobody supported it. Is that accurate? Or is CNN just its usual inaccurate self?

[pangaia]

5. Maybe the Senate is short of the 60 votes.

...or maybe the short senators are not voting
or the senators voting in favor are two short, or too short.
Could be any of the above, or none...

[Sanity Claws]

6. Could they be in their shorts?

Voting in shorts = short votes?

[pangaia]

11. Yes, yes. Absolutely.

That is a definite possibility, although short on sanity.

!!

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. Reported here as 56 senators in favour of XL, they thought they could get 6 or 7 more

but that seems unlikely to the reporter:

A bipartisan bill was introduced yesterday that would circumvent President Barack Obama by issuing a permit allowing construction. The move came after his administration delayed a decision on the $5.4 billion project, possibly into next year, citing a legal challenge to the route it would take through Nebraska.
...
The legislation’s authors -- Republican Senator John Hoeven of North Dakota and Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana -- said they have 56 supporters -- four shy of what’s needed to end delaying tactics by opponents and make the vote anything more than an election-year gambit putting supporters on record for voters back home.

Hoeven said all 45 Senate Republicans, along with 11 Democrats, support his legislation, and now he and Landrieu have “six or seven” Democrats in their sights, yet don’t yet have any takers. The bill is S.2280.

The targets are Democrats who in March 2013 joined Republicans to pass a nonbinding resolution backing the pipeline with 62 votes.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-05-01/wooing-of-wavering-senators-to-force-keystone-seen-falling-short

[Cartoonist]

8. Done deal

The targets are Democrats who in March 2013 joined Republicans to pass a nonbinding resolution backing the pipeline with 62 votes.
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The spineless just need a little more cash.

[navarth]

9. Mary Landrieu

She's a sponsor of this and just recently I got emails from some Democratic organization asking me to send her money. 'Support Mary Landrieu'!

Fuck that.

[Samantha]

13. Authorization to build this pipeline across the border is an Executive Branch power

not a Legislative Branch power. The President must approve the pipeline, and acquire two-thirds of the Senate to approve it. Just the Senate.

Who are they kidding?

Sam

[muriel_volestrangler]

14. Dunno - it seems to me they'd need that 2/3rds to 'bypass' a presidential veto

in both chambers. Maybe their idea is that since Obama says he's undecided, a majority vote in both chambers (assuming the Repub majority in the House will vote for Oil) will get him to leap off the fence onto their side. But that doesn't seem a 'bypass' to me.

[Samantha]

17. I don't think President Obama falls for bluffs very often

And he is a Constitutional expert so I am thinking he is pretty familiar with the text of the law.

It is we the people these legislators are trying to sucker-punch. They think we cannot read or do not know the law. After all, many of us went to public schools....

Sam

[1StrongBlackMan]

16. Someone here ...

either read the US Constitution or took, and passed, 8th grade Civics ... or maybe both.

Brava!

[Samantha]

18. Exactly -- learned this in an 8th grade civics class in a public school!

I remember thinking I was the only one in class who found civics fascinating! Still do.

Sam

[misterhighwasted]

12. KXL measure lacks the 60 votes needed for construction

Will repost this headline
For clarification.