Senate Aide: GOP Will Try To Go Around Obama For Keystone Approval

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An aide to Sen. Jon Hoeven (R-ND) has told Reuters that Congressional Republicans will attempt to eschew approval from President Barack Obama for TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline.

Cross-border pipelines have historically required presidential approval, but Ryan Bernstein, an energy advisor to Hoeven, says that Republicans will draft a bill to approve the pipeline that invokes Congressional authority to regulate commerce with foreign nations.

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