Senate Fails to Override Obama’s Keystone XL Veto

On Wednesday, the Senate failed to override President Obama’s veto of legislation authorizing construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.

The legislation was vetoed by President Obama on Feb. 24, 2014; his first veto of major legislation as president.

Sixty-two senators voted to authorize construction of the pipeline, five short of the 67 votes needed to override a presidential veto. Thirty-seven voted to sustain the veto.

See how your senators voted here:

Gary Bauer, Contributing Author summed up the situation: The Keystone Lesson - What more can we say that hasn't already been said about the Keystone pipeline? This battle has gone on for six and a half years. Last week President Obama vetoed bi-partisan legislation authorizing construction of the pipeline. Yesterday the Senate failed to override his veto on a 62-to-37 vote.

The veto is not the big story. The big story is that the national Democratic Party is so infected with Obamaism that its reasonable moderate wing is virtually nonexistent. Every American politician should want to increase America's energy supply from a friendly ally. But not anymore.

That the vast majority of Senate Democrats are willing to let this project die bodes badly for our future. Whether it's the Keystone pipeline or stopping Obama's executive amnesty, liberal senators are unwilling to defend their constitutional obligations and more interested in advancing Obama's radical agenda at any cost.

Here's something else to keep in mind. While it's a double-edged sword (hurting our domestic oil industry), low oil prices are hurting Iran and Russia. Obama just passed up a great opportunity to exert even more strategic leverage over our enemies.

In addition, and I know this will come as a shock to many, he's lying to us. He keeps insisting that Keystone's oil will go overseas and benefit other countries, not America. Once again, he's demonstrating total ignorance of market economies.

But, more importantly, he's just flat wrong. The Washington Post Fact Checker gave Obama Four Pinocchios for his whopper that Keystone's oil "bypasses the U.S."

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