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OVERNIGHT ENERGY: Senate passes Keystone despite veto threat

Or so Republicans said over and over on Thursday after successfully pushing through legislation to approve the controversial Keystone XL pipeline.

“Mainly what we had to prove was that we weren’t like the 113th Congress,” said Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas) on the floor after the upper chamber voted 62-36 to give the $8 billion project a thumbs up.

Read full article at The Hill