{"id":7385,"date":"2021-02-09T15:44:10","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T20:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=7385"},"modified":"2021-02-09T15:46:35","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T20:46:35","slug":"montana-free-press-republican-tries-to-revive-keystone-xl-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/02\/09\/montana-free-press-republican-tries-to-revive-keystone-xl-pipeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Montana Free Press: Republican tries to revive Keystone XL Pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Following passage of an amendment in the U.S. Senate showing support for the Keystone XL Pipeline, Sen. Steve Daines (R-Montana) calls on his Democratic coll…<\/p>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n\t

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Senators wrangle over Keystone XL measure<\/div>\r\n
A symbolic amendment introduced by Sen. Steve Daines narrowly passed with support from two Democrats before being stripped from budget resolution.<\/div>\r\n
Tuesday, February 9, 2021<\/div>\r\n
By Amanda Eggert<\/div>\r\n
Montana Free Press<\/DIV>\r\n
montanafreepress.org<\/A><\/DIV>\r\n

<\/p>\r\n\r\nThe controversial Keystone XL pipeline found its way into a complicated Congressional budget process late last week when Sen. Steve Daines introduced an amendment to the Senate\u2019s budget resolution<\/a> signifying support for the project, which was effectively shut down last month when \r\nPresident Joe Biden retracted the cross-border permit<\/a>\r\nhis predecessor issued in 2017.\r\n

<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\nThough largely symbolic \u2014 budget resolutions are more about signalling priorities than making law \u2014 it was notable when the Daines measure, \r\nAmendment 678<\/a>\r\nto \r\nContinuing Resolution 5<\/a>, narrowly passed with affirmative votes from just two Democratic senators: Montana\u2019s Jon Tester and West Virginia lawmaker Joe Manchin. The amendment, which was aimed at \u201cthe improvement of relations between the United States and Canada with regard to the Keystone XL Pipeline,\u201d passed 52-48 late Thursday evening.\r\n<\/strong>\r\nMany GOP lawmakers cheered the development.\r\n

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The Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux frontline organization Kokipansi takes part in a Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples Awareness Day action at a Keystone XL Pipeline construction site near the Montana border with Canada on May 5, 2020. Photo courtesy Indigenous Environmental Network<\/a>\r\n<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n

<\/p>\r\nBut by the time senators wrapped up their marathon session, support for Keystone XL had been removed from Continuing Resolution 5 and associated amendments. In the early hours of Friday morning, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, \r\nintroduced an amendment consolidating many of the previously passed amendments<\/a>\r\nand cleaning up some of the bill language. Daines\u2019 Keystone XL amendment was not included in that measure, which contained a suite of unrelated items.\r\n

<\/p>\r\nBoth Tester and Manchin voted in favor of the Schumer amendment, which narrowly passed 51-50, with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the tie-breaking vote.\r\n

<\/p>\r\n\r\nThe Daines camp said Tester and Manchin \u201cflip-flopped\u201d their position on Keystone XL, a project pursued by Canadian company TC Energy to transport tar sands oil from Alberta to the Gulf Coast.

<\/p>\r\n\r\n\u201cIn the wee hours of the morning, in the most DC swampy way possible, Senate Democrats flip-flopped on their support for American energy and union jobs by killing Senator Daines\u2019 Keystone XL Pipeline amendment and another supporting fracking,\u201d a Daines press release said.

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