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Can Mary Landrieu get to 60 senate votes on Keystone pipeline?
The Hill ^ | 11/18/2014 | Laura Barron-Lopez

Posted on 11/18/2014 9:29:14 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Embattled Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) and other supporters of building the Keystone XL pipeline appear to be one vote short of the 60 they need to win a key vote on the project on Tuesday.

Landrieu has 59 votes backing legislation to approve the project, and Sens. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) and Angus King (I-Maine) appear to be her top targets to get to 60.

The effort is crucial to Landrieu because of her runoff election in December against Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), who also backs the pipeline. Landrieu is seen as a decided underdog in the race, and Senate Democrats have scheduled Tuesday’s vote to try to give her a boost. If she fails, it could be a death knell for her reelection hopes.

Supporters of Keystone had been targeting Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), but a spokesman for the senator told The Hill on Monday that he would vote no.

Both sides are furiously working the phones in advance of Tuesday evening’s vote.

Proponents are “burning up the phone lines and e-mails trying to find that vote to support the procedural move,” Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said Sunday.

Green groups are pushing right back, rallying outside of Landrieu's Washington, D.C. home on Monday morning. A small group of activists led by 350.org draped an inflatable pipeline across Landrieu's front yard.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: 113th; keystone; marylandrieu; pipeline; senate
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To: dfwgator

So, instead of calling her ‘Typhoid Mary’ can we call her ‘Keystone Mary?’


21 posted on 11/18/2014 9:49:08 AM PST by sauropod (Fat Bottomed Girl: "What difference, at this psoint, does it make?")
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To: SeekAndFind; All

That is what I thought. Thanks for the info.


22 posted on 11/18/2014 9:50:06 AM PST by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: Gaffer

She can go back to LA and live in her mom’s basement and go on Jenny Craig....

******************

And leave the 2.5 million dollar home on East Capitol St. in DC? Heck her husband
has a thriving Real Estate business there. She’ll search for a lobbying job or
something similar is my guess.

http://franksnellings.com/aboutme.html


23 posted on 11/18/2014 9:51:57 AM PST by deport
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To: SeekAndFind

False drama, so the donkeys can turn this into a WIN for Landrieu and point to her extraordinary skills in pushing legislation.


24 posted on 11/18/2014 9:52:23 AM PST by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The 60th vote for Obamacare gets tossed under the bus when she’s no longer useful. If this is the way they treat their own can imagine what they intend to do with you?


25 posted on 11/18/2014 9:53:32 AM PST by circlecity
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To: SeekAndFind
Mary Landrieu has served in the Senate for 18 years, but only when it comes to doing what is politically expedient to save her bacon does she do what's right for the people of Louisiana.

Sorry, Mary. A day late and a dollar short!

26 posted on 11/18/2014 9:54:52 AM PST by mellow velo
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To: Jim Noble
The question is not can Landrieu get to 60, it is can Cassidy get to 67?

Neither will be possible.

27 posted on 11/18/2014 9:55:58 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: SeekAndFind
Nobody and I mean nobody I know gives a “Democrat's rear end (Rat's a$$)” I she gets the 60 or not, she's done for.
28 posted on 11/18/2014 9:59:00 AM PST by The Cajun (Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert....Nuff said.)
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To: pepsionice

Mary Landrieu gives prostitution a bad name.


29 posted on 11/18/2014 10:00:17 AM PST by Walrus (I love the America that used to be ---I hate the America that now IS!)
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To: ColdOne
If she even got the votes, cant eboma just stop it somehow?

59? It's about protecting Ebama (from not having to veto), not Landrieu

30 posted on 11/18/2014 10:03:53 AM PST by llevrok (I fear the US government more than I do al Qaeda)
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To: mellow velo

Excuse me, did you say “served” in the Senate? Didn’t you mean “plundered”?


31 posted on 11/18/2014 10:04:47 AM PST by Walrus (I love the America that used to be ---I hate the America that now IS!)
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To: llevrok

Never looked at it that way....thnx.


32 posted on 11/18/2014 10:06:06 AM PST by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: Jim Noble
Cassidy won't be a player. If Obama vetos it, Cassidy won't be a Senator until the next Congress, and this bill will die at the end of this session.

A new Congress can try again.

-PJ

33 posted on 11/18/2014 10:07:00 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Walrus

Mary Landrieu gives prostitution a bad name:

Bourbon Street Pig in a Blanket


34 posted on 11/18/2014 10:11:47 AM PST by Polyxene (Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Jay Rockefeller shouldn’t care — he didn’t run for re-election — but, I guess a RAT-Commie-Obama-bootlicker is one forever.


35 posted on 11/18/2014 10:14:09 AM PST by Polyxene (Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.)
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To: deport

Yeah....I pretty much knew this....it’s a damn shame we send our ‘citizens’ to DC and if they stay there more than one term they get hooked on the DC crack and won’t ever leave.....Newt Gingrich was this way, BTW.


36 posted on 11/18/2014 10:16:10 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: SeekAndFind

The laugher is that it will pass with no problem as soon as the GOP takes over.


37 posted on 11/18/2014 10:36:05 AM PST by dangus
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To: SeekAndFind

The big question is whether there will be seven new yes votes in the Senate. I think the House override should be doable.


38 posted on 11/18/2014 10:36:57 AM PST by dangus
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To: Jim Noble

Sounds like they need 67, not 60.
60 gets past the fillibuster,
67 gets past a veto.


39 posted on 11/18/2014 10:38:23 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: SeekAndFind

To borrow a phrase from Madame Secretary:

“What difference does it make?”

67 is really the crucial number.

That’s how many votes you need to override Soetoro’s veto.


40 posted on 11/18/2014 10:39:58 AM PST by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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