Sacramento Bee: Shortly after winning a U.S. Senate seat in South Dakota last week, Republican Mike Rounds declared there would be enough votes to actually get the Keystone XL pipeline released from captivity.
Sen. John Hoeven, his Republican neighbor from the other Dakota, chimed in: I think we have the 60 votes we need to approve it.
In the newly reconstituted Senate, James Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican, is in line to replace our own Barbara Boxer as chair of the committee that oversees environmental...