{"id":46956,"date":"2014-11-19T18:00:52","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T18:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/politico_senate_rejects_keystone_pipeline_bill\/"},"modified":"2014-11-19T18:00:52","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T18:00:52","slug":"politico_senate_rejects_keystone_pipeline_bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46956","title":{"rendered":"(Politico) Senate rejects Keystone Pipeline bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Mary Landrieu\u2019s bid to pass a Keystone XL pipeline bill fell short by the slimmest of margins Tuesday, leaving the $8 billion pipeline still on the table for the ascendant Republican Party to push the project to President Barack Obama\u2019s desk in January.<\/p>\n<p>The 59-41 Senate vote was just shy of the 60 votes needed to pass the bill, following a dramatic six days of whipping by the embattled Louisiana Democrat on an issue that almost all of Washington had expected to sit idle until next year.<\/p>\n<p>The defeat deals a blow to Landrieu\u2019s campaign ahead of her Dec. 6 runoff against GOP Rep. Bill Cassidy, whom polls show running comfortably ahead. Winning on Keystone would have helped her demonstrate her clout on the Hill as a champion of her state\u2019s influential oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2014\/11\/keystone-xl-senate-vote-113008.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Mary Landrieu\u2019s bid to pass a Keystone XL pipeline bill fell short by the slimmest of margins Tuesday, leaving the $8 billion pipeline still on the table for the ascendant Republican Party to push the project to President Barack<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46956\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,50,209,207,589,149,140,168,144,597,151,618,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-canada","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-energy-natural-resources","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-politics-in-general","category-senate","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}