Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Reuters: Regulatory News: U.S. House votes to force approval of Keystone pipeline

Reuters: Regulatory News
Reuters.com is your source for breaking news, business, financial and investing news, including personal finance and stocks. Reuters is the leading global provider of news, financial information and technology solutions to the world's media, financial institutions, businesses and individuals. // via fulltextrssfeed.com
U.S. House votes to force approval of Keystone pipeline
May 22nd 2013, 23:09

WASHINGTON | Wed May 22, 2013 7:09pm EDT

WASHINGTON May 22 (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill on Wednesday declaring that a presidential permit was not needed to approve the Canada-to-Nebraska leg of the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline.

The Republican-controlled House voted 241-175 with support from some Democrats.

The bill, which would take authority for approving the pipeline away from the administration, faces an uphill battle as it would have to pass the Senate with enough votes to overcome a promised veto from President Barack Obama.

You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com.

If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed, or manage all your subscriptions

0 comments:

Post a Comment

 
Great HTML Templates from easytemplates.com.