GOP Senators Push for Keystone XL Approval

By Goddard Political Wire

Posted January 24, 2014 at 12:01pm

“All 45 Senate Republicans are pressing President Barack Obama to make a decision on the Keystone XL oil pipeline approval,” Roll Call reports.

The senators seek an answer from Obama “as soon as possible” on issuing a permit for the pipeline project.

Republicans have repeatedly pushed for approval of the pipeline, which had supermajority support, 62-37, in the Senate on a non-binding test vote last March.

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